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Body Quotes by Anais Nin
- Jazz is the music of the body.
- The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
- The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses…
- Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it,…
- Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
- Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
- I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires…
- In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his…
- Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and…
- When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and…
- And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized,…
- I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over…
- Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine