Collector Quote by Georges Rodenbach

“thrilling to the sensation of hard, teeming flesh.”

— Emma Holly

The key to my collections is sensuality.

— Sonia Rykiel

“intriguing sensual pleasure.”

— Elizabeth Lowell

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Is love a passionate embrace, where you grab but cannot taste. your lustfull urge will surely replace, that bitter sweet pleasure that only leads…

— Pierre Blundell

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

“The smallest pleasure, like a mouthful of canned fruit or the chance to bathe in an ice-cold river, was a luxury, something to be…

— Mark Bowden

“May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.”

— Folco Portinari

“I deny myself gentler kinds of affection—to touch or be kindly touched—as if that is a pleasure a body like mine does not deserve.”

— Roxane Gay

“Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman’s company, or…

— Marcel Proust

“Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars…

— E.M. Forster