A Quote by Erica Jong

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
American - Novelist
Born: March 26, 1942

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Brene Brown

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

Dan Reynolds

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Todd Haynes

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

Ken Keyes Jr.

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Andre Vltchek

There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at bay.

Philip Pullman

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Adrienne Rich

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.

Anne Carson

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Heinrich Rohrer

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

bell hooks

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Alistair Begg

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