A Quote by Marguerite Duras

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Marguerite Duras

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Aim Dangerous Desire Duality Heterosexuality Heterosexuality Is Perfect

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Marguerite Duras
French - Novelist
April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996

There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think heterosexuality cannot come naturally to many women: I think that widespread heterosexuality among women is a highly artificial product of the patriarchy. . . . I think that most women have to be coerced into heterosexuality.

Marilyn Frye

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

Saint Augustine

All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.

Rajneesh

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

Russell Brand

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

Lisa Genova

The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the universe, in every atom, every action, and in every function of the human body. Yin and yang are manifest everywhere, except at the very center of being, the perfect point of balance, at that infinite moment where the future becomes the past.

Robert Tisserand

The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.

Hanne Blank

Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.

Thomas Szasz

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

Thomas F. Wilson

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

George Stillman Hillard

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

George Michael

My work on symmetries of string theory is on what is known as strong-weak coupling duality, or S-duality.

Ashoke Sen

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

Rajneesh

To the perfect, if it be perfect, there is nothing that can be added; therefore, the will is not capable of any other desire, when that which is of the perfect is present with it, highest and best.