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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

Tropic of Cancer
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.

How to Think More About Sex
Sex gets us out of the house and out of ourselves.

How to Think More About Sex
To have a sexual history did not only imply one had made love to a succession of people, it also suggested one had either rejected or been rejected by these same bedroom companions.

The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game. A man wouldn't have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn't venture off to get fucked. It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.

The Dying Animal
The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor
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