There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tenderness is a virtue.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
At different times in your life, your body needs different things.
When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.