Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

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About Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely...

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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

—Shirley MacLaine

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it; it is by nature self-erasing; you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

—E. L. Doctorow

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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had if only they persevere.

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But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

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