Author: David Schwarm
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Sigmund Freud
“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.”
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Richard Bach
“The opposite of loneliness, it’s not togetherness. It is intimacy.” How many times have you had a revelation about your sexuality while having sex, or learned about an essential value you hold while in deep conversation with someone you love?
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Bond by Juana de Ibarbourou
translated by Muna Lee I grew Only for you. Cut the acacia boughs that demandOnly destruction at your hand! My blossom blew Only for you.Uproot me—in its natal hourMy lily doubted were it candle or flower. My waters blue Flow for you.Drink me—never crystal knowsSo pure a tide as in this channel flows. Wings I knew Only for…
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Eve Ensler
“I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy, that someone or something was going to do this for me—the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.”~
David Given Schwarm 