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Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.
— Seduction
Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.
Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm [sudden outbreak of emotion] of intensity and charm.
Distinctive signs, full signs, never seduce us.
I like clothes and I like seduction in general, but I am like that with everybody.
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.
In the game of seduction, There is only one rule: Never fall in love.
Moderates and liberals are not immune to the theory's seductive charms—especially when it gives them a chance to lecture others on their failings.
But ne'er to a seductive lay let faith be given;Nor deem that "light that leads astray" is light from Heaven.
