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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

— Audre Lorde

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

— Kenneth Rexroth

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of…

— Audre Lorde

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

— Ian Mcewan

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they…

— Audre Lorde

I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness -…

— Garth Greenwell

I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that other person…

— Siri Hustvedt

When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

— Jim Morrison

Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.

— Esther Perel

“. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our…

— Audre Lorde

“There is a schism in me, between the erotic and the intimate. One, by definition, negates the other. For me the pursuit of sensuality…

— Tobsha Learner