Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price."
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Seduction
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Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war."
Rene Descartes
Philosopher, Mathematician
"It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it.""
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction."
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"The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good."
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"New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety."
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"I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!"
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"Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it."
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"When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be."
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"To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing."
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"Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides."
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"Writing is seduction."
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"The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty."
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"Art is seduction, not rape."
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"It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning."
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