A more voluptuous night I never enjoyed. Five times was I fairly lost in supreme rapture. Louisa was madly fond of me; she declare...d I was a prodigy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then... Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a volup...tuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Buonaparte--there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like som...e plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal.... No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy Insect, happy Thou, Dost neither Age, nor Winter know....
But when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung Thy fill, the flowry Leaves among, (Voluptuous, and Wise withal, Epicurean Animal!) Satiated with thy Summer Feast, Thou retir'st to endless Rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A doll's hair concealing an eggshell skull delicately... throbbing, within which maggots in voluptuous unrest jostle and shrug.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The voluptuous Indian, with every desire supplied, whom Providence has bountifully provided with all the sources of pure and natur...al enjoyment, and from whom are removed so many of the ills and pains of life--what has he to desire at the hands of Civilization? She may "cultivate his mind,"Mmay "elevate his thoughts,"Mthese I believe are the established phrases--but will he be the happier? Let the once smiling and populous Hawaiian islands, with their now diseased, starving, and dying natives, answer the question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was easy to recognize in him the anti-social animus of a born evangelist, but there was also something else--a kind of voluptuo...us delight in the shabby and preposterous, a perverted aestheticism like that of a latter-day movie or radio fan, a wild will to roll in and snuffle balderdash as a cat rolls in and snuffles catnip.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza? Almost certainly you are both. There is one part of yo...u that wishes to be a hero or a saint, but another part of you is a fat little man who sees very clearly the advantages of staying alive with a whole skin. He is your unofficial self, the voice of the belly protesting against the soul, his tastes lie towards safety, soft beds, no work, pots of beer and women with "voluptuous" figures. He it is who punctures your fine attitudes and urges you to look after Number One, to be unfaithful to your wife, to bilk your debts, and so on and so forth. Whether you allow yourself to be influenced by him is a different question. But it is simply a lie to say that he is not part of you, just as it is a lie to say that Don Quixote is not part of you either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiven...ess, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »