"Who said nights were for sleep?"
— Marilyn Monroe

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what corruption they're taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment - just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! - an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exultation, only on the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces them to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and accept their real ego as their standard of value. They will always be attracted to the person who reflects their deepest vision of themselves, the person whose surrender permits them to experience - or to fake - a sense of self-esteem .. Love is our response to our highest values - and can be nothing else."
— Ayn Rand

"Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings)

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl.""
— Shirley Chisholm

"Excuse me.
Nine hours ago, I broke off the single most pointlessly agonizing one-way relationship of my young life.
It was a thin slice of hell, and now it is over.. He's not mine. He never will be mine, and I've thrown away three years of my life pining and hoping. Well, not anymore, and I need to get him out of my system. I've given the matter serious thought, and all I want right now is for some total stranger to nail me to a mattress for the next fourteen hours. I will almost certainly cry all over you and call you by his name, but I assure you that my sexual frustration has built to such a fever peak that I will fuck you dry. What do you say?"
"whine"
— Carla Speed McNeil (Finder, Vol. 06: Mystery Date)

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

"I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

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— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

"Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace"
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings)

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. "
— Betty Friedan

"Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area."
— Xaviera Hollander

".....love yourself."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"Get used to disappointment."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

سكوت تنها دوستي ست كه هيچ گاه رازت را فاش نمي كند."
— Confucius

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"Once you label me you negate me."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief
that sustains thought and holds the world together."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. "
— Søren Kierkegaard

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (Aline et Valcour)

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
— Anaïs Nin

"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."
— Søren Kierkegaard

""Ma leg mai ales de fiintele care n-au nevoie de mine si pe care deodata le inlantui prin cea mai puternica legatura. Sunt gata sa dau totul cui nu cere nimic, dar nu vreau sa cedez nimic cui asteapta totul de la celalalt.""
— Pascal Bruckner

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
— Anaïs Nin

"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ"
— Anaïs Nin

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
— Anaïs Nin

"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."
— Anaïs Nin

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
— Anaïs Nin

"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
— Anaïs Nin

"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
— Anaïs Nin

"I write emotional algebra."
— Anaïs Nin

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. "
— Anaïs Nin

"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 walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy."
— Anaïs Nin

"Passion gives me moments of wholeness"
— Anais Nin

"I hate men who are afraid of women's strength."
— Anaïs Nin