Femininity Quote by Mary MacLane

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

— Georges Bataille

“There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor…

— Emil M. Cioran

“The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed, contemplating the…

— Victor Hugo

“The deep sleep of an untroubled conscience.”

— Juliana Gray

“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores silence, and…

— Albert Camus

Fortify yourself against seductive eloquence.

— Regina Maria Roche

“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this…

— George Eliot

“...We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the…

— Audre Lorde

“The part of the deep night when it’s impractical to do anything useful, but sleep won’t come, so the mind swirls around in the…

— Eliza Maxwell

“Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If I dwell at some length on the tremors and gropings of that distant night, it is because I insist upon proving that I…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“For life has worn me down: continual uneasiness, concealment of my knowledge, pretense, fear, a painful straining of all my nerves—not to let down,…

— Vladimir Nabokov