"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it……" — Mario Vargas Llosa
"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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38 Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within…
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This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize,…
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It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because…
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I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
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The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if…
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Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
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Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in…
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The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an…
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I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
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No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian…
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
— Francesca Annis
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
— Georges Bataille
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Two things are not debatable: eroticism, and comedy. If you don't think it's sexy, or funny, there's no way I…
— Gene Siskel
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Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than…
— Germaine Greer
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What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering…
— Georges Bataille
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In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
— Henri Lefebvre
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
— Anais Nin
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The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake:…
— Edwin Louis Cole
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What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies…
— Esther Perel
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Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social…
— Francis Parker Yockey
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Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.
— Eva Hoffman
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Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.
— Esther Perel
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