Top 100 Quotes About Eros

#1. Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers.

Robert Graves

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#2. The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific.

Mason Cooley

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#3. If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#4. I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

Sigmund Freud

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#5. My love is like agape and not eros.

Debasish Mridha

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#6. But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic

Allan Bloom

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#7. For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.

Michael Leunig

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#8. What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

Erica Jong

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#9. There is no art without Eros.

Max Frisch

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#10. Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

C.S. Lewis

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#11. In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

Forrest Gander

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#12. Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in

Sappho

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#13. When Psyche got up to leave, Eros once again mentioned that he would miss her on Sunday."Even if you come on Sunday, I shall not be able to give you what you want. I shall be having my period then & it will be too messy for your liking," his secretary advised him.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

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#14. Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

Sappho

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#15. Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks.

Sappho

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#16. It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And then, I suppose, it's on to the next thing. But eros is eternal, like joy.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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#17. Frienship is eros ... without wings

Lord Byron

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#18. Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.

Peter Watts

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#19. Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?

Karl Barth

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#20. Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

Douglas McCulloh

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#21. Have you two made friendly with the privates yet? (Eros)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#22. The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce a false consciousness of security; to deny death by avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe in God, not to experience the Void; to create, in short, one-dimensional man; to promote respect, conformity, obedience. . .

R.D. Laing

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#23. Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

Sigmund Freud

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#24. Relaxing me from head to feet
Love masters me, the bitter sweet
O'er thy limbs breathing;
Yea, Eros now, the god born blind
Sweeps my soul like the mountain wind
Through the oaks seething.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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#25. Love, I saw now, was an exterior spiritual force that swept through our bodies in the symbolic forms of eros, then bound us materially, skin and bone, in the symbolic moment of birth.

Andrew Klavan

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#26. And thus Bacchus turned Phyllis into his slave. She had become the lovely slave girl, Briseis, whom Achilles took as a war prize & whom Achilles had to yield to Agamemnon, his boss. Just as Phyllis was the prize that Eros found & whom Eros had to yield to Bacchus,his boss.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

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#27. Tell me, did you summon me just so you could beat the crap out of me? Or is there a more productive reason for why I'm here? (Eros)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#28. Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.

Francois Lelord

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#29. We had always segregated sex from feeling and from intellectual love, so you were either pure and virtuous, as Nassrin's uncle had said, or dirty and fun. What was alien to us was eros, true sensuality.

Azar Nafisi

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#30. This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule."
"Semi-autonomous," the alien said.
"Pleased to meet you."
"Likewise.

James S.A. Corey

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#31. Eros supported a population of one and a half million, a little more than Ceres had in visitors at any given time.

James S.A. Corey

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#32. I consider it poor historical form to make fun of ancestral mistakes without respecting the eros that was linked to them. We are no less in bondage to the Zeitgeist; folly is handed down, we merely don a new cap.

Ernst Junger

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#33. Why did you hit him? (Grace) Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian) Nice. You haven't seen me in what, two thousand years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#34. You fucked the groom fifteen minutes before he was to say his vows."
"Ah, yeah." I adjust my erection again.
"Then you took the father-in-law."
"Well, I was already naked and you know I recover quickly-"
"Eros!

Candi Kay

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#35. You're too focused. Too high-strung. Too ... " Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi's blue eyes. "Too caught up with being in love.

Shanora Williams

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#36. Human nature will not easily find a better helper than eros

Socrates

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#37. The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

Herbert Marcuse

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#38. God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

David Bentley Hart

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#39. Agape, eros, and chastity, a heady combination that would make even the strongest man fall to his knees

Sylvain Reynard

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#40. But pomp and power alone are woman's care,
And where these are light Eros finds a feere;
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.

George Gordon Byron

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#41. One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

W. H. Auden

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#42. We came upon a massacre at the Shrine of Prometheus. The humans were ripped to shreds. There was no one ieft alive to say what happened, said Eros.

Wynn Mercere

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#43. Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... .

Sappho

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#44. Um, Dr. Alexander, there's a couple out here who say they're related to you. They ... um ... they're biker people. (Nurse) Hey, Julian. Tell Attila the Hun here that we're okay so we can come and ooh and aah over the babies. (Eros)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#45. The truth about eros is terrifying.

Seth Benardete

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#46. Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Michael Leunig

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#47. Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus."
"That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not."
"He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin."
Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time.

Rick Riordan

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#48. Then, having accomplished what he wanted to do, Eros decided to stop the futile battle. He recalled Phobos & Deimos from Mars & sent him Anteros & Himeros instead.
And immediately, the God of Hate turned into the God of Passion.

Nicholas Chong

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#49. Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

Murray Bookchin

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#50. He [Cupid] was Love [Eros] reborn. And as he was born after his parents coupled as Love-Birds, he was born with little fluttering wings.

Nicholas Chong

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#51. You want the bad news, or the really bad news? (Eros)
Oh, let's see ... how about we make my day special, and start with the worst, then work our way up? (Julian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#52. Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes?

Joyce Carol Oates

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#53. The dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

Hakim Bey

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#54. Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

C.S. Lewis

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#55. There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

Meghan O'Rourke

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#56. Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

C.S. Lewis

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#57. Eros guides us to Logos.

Plato

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#58. Love me until Venus gasps with envy.
Love me again until Eros swears celibacy.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

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#59. The friendship between my hand and this stone enacts an ancient and irrefutable eros, the kindredness of matter with itself.

David Abram

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#60. The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

Anne Carson

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#61. He believed that there is no end to the mischief and hatred which men harbor deep in themselves and unknown to themselves and no end to their capacity to deceive themselves and that though they loved life, they probably loved death more and in the end thanatos would likely win over eros.

Walker Percy

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#62. Don't start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#63. Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#64. The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

Joseph Campbell

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#65. Eros, honoured without reservation and obeyed unconditionally, becomes a demon.

C.S. Lewis

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#66. One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

Klaus Mann

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#67. Eros is everywhere. It is what binds.

John Updike

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#68. The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.

Rollo May

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#69. Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

Francois Lelord

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#70. With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.

Diane Wolkstein

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#71. Eros is my sun, Ares is my fire, but Hephaestus is my rock, my foundation, and no matter where I go or what I do, I will always come back to him. I know that now.

Aimee Carter

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#72. Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

Ronald Rolheiser

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#73. Sexual desire, without Eros, wants it, the thing in itself; Eros wants the Beloved.

C.S. Lewis

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#74. Politics, the negotiating of power. Eros, the negotiating of power.

Joyce Carol Oates

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#75. Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.

Allan Bloom

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#76. Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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#77. Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros."
~Sel Menach

Orson Scott Card

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#78. And thus it behoved Eros to put back fun, romance & passion into the union of love. He had to find Himeros, from the sea, from Uranus' cut off testicles, to bring Passion back into the union of love.

Nicholas Chong

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#79. If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor W. Adorno

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#80. Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up ... I don't know what I should do: two states of mind in me ...

Sappho

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#81. The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Minna Antrim

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#82. In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?

D.H. Lawrence

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#83. Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#84. I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phenomena of eros.

Allan Bloom

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#85. I spit
honey out of my mouth:
nothing is second-best
after the sweet of Eros.

Hilda Doolittle

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#86. There is no denying that Eros was now in love.He had fallen in love with his wife, Helen, more than 15 years ago, & that was why he married her.He had now fallen in love again with his new Secretary.And that was what was now driving him bonkers.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

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#87. All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Emile M. Cioran

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#88. Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Isabel Allende

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#89. Orion:"Where shall I shoot him?"
Eros grinned. "Considering he won't even feel the arrow, take your pick. I know what I would aim at.

Tina Folsom

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#90. Eros doomed! I doubt it ... eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful force, it shakes things up, causes people to break the rules, makes people do crazy things! Reason doesn't stand a chance in its face.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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#91. May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#92. You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.

Joyce Carol Oates

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#93. This is the Eros of thought: to desire everything. It wants to leave nothing out. Thought is curious and is driven by the desire to know. It wants to draw aside the veils of illusion and see what reality conceals. Words, images and ideas are its instruments of illumination. Yet

John O'Donohue

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#94. Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.

Dean Young

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#95. We have let Eros mean slavery, but Eros also has the power to set us free. We must demand the right to depict women's lives as we know them, not as we might like them to be. We must stop applying political prescriptions to creativity.

Erica Jong

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#96. Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

George Eliot

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#97. Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.

John Friend

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#98. The more you gaze into her eyes, the more you will see what you want, what is actually inside your heart. And then she will suddenly vanish and you will wonder how you lost her. So you must close the door on your emotions. Eros is not a painter and he often spoils our work.

Michael Harrington

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#99. Julianne, I love you with all four loves. But tonight is a celebration of eros

Sylvain Reynard

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#100. And with the lower docking fees, Eros Station found other ways to soak money from its visitors: Casinos. Brothels. Shooting galleries. Vice in all its commercial forms found a home in Eros, its local economy blooming like a fungus fed by the desires of Belters.

James S.A. Corey

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