#2,735

The realism of photography is false: it omits in its representation of the object its past, its transcendence, its future.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439

#2,622

Ages of sexual liberation reduce to a few spasmodic shouts the rich modulations of human sensuality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 423

#2,614

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 422

#2,254

Immodesty is the solvent of sensuality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 366

#1,865

Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world.
Societies where the Greco-Roman legacy is being wiped out, or where it does not exist, only know sentimentalism and sexuality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,751

The passivity of things deceives us: we manipulate nothing with impudence without hurting a god.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,728

The hand that has not learned how to caress does not know how to write.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 287

#1,384

When the object loses its sensual fullness and becomes an instrument or a sign, reality evaporates and God vanishes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 236

#1,321

Art is the supreme sensual pleasure.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,260

A sensual object is one that reveals its soul to the senses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

#1,084

Hope is not fatally stultifying, if we do not hope in a future with an upper-case F.
To cherish the hope of a new earthly splendor is not illicit, provided we hope in a splendor that is wounded, frail, mortal.
We can love what is of the earth without fault, as long as we remember that we love fleeting clay.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 192

#827

As the waters of this century rise, delicate and noble sentiments, sensuous and fine tastes, discreet and profound ideas take refuge in a few solitary souls, like the survivors of the flood on some silent mountain peaks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 151

#473

Sensuality is the permanent possibility of rescuing the world from the captivity of its insignificance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 93

#414

Eroticism, sensuality, and love, when they do not converge in the same person, are nothing more, in isolation, than a disease, a vice, and foolishness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 84

#377

Let us repudiate the abominable suggestion that we should renounce friendship and love in order to banish misfortune.
On the contrary, let us mingle our souls just as we weave our bodies together.
May the beloved be the land of our shattered roots.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 78

#376

Love is essentially the adherence of the spirit to another naked body.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 78

#343

What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 73

#250

The sensual is the presence of a value in the sensible.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 59

#248

We would like not to caress the body we love, but to be that caress.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 59

#239

A naked body solves all the universe’s problems.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 57