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Delta of Venus Quotes
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
I had a feeling that Pandora’s box contained the mysteries of woman’s sensuality, so different from a man’s and for which man’s language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties, deeper relationships that change its color, flavor, rhythms, intensities.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
You are a real hermaphrodite, Mafouka, ’ I said. ‘That is what our age is supposed to have produced because the tension between the masculine and the feminine has broken down, people are mostly half of one and half of the other. But I have never seen it before—actually, physically. It must make you very unhappy.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
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