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  • Caress the detail, the divine detail. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you. -- Anatole France
  • In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. -- Leonard Cohen
  • I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. -- Andre Gide
  • Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. -- Andre Gide
  • Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. -- Alphonsus Liguori
  • A love song is just a caress set to music. -- Sigmund Romberg
  • There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. -- Washington Irving
  • Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire -- Henri Nouwen
  • The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run. -- Tim Cahill
  • Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. -- Simone de Beauvoir
  • Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other. -- Bruce D. Perry
  • I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes. -- Emo Philips
  • I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress. -- Muriel Barbery
  • For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time--let go. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • Your erotic,A memoir of pleasure.Caress the streets as through they held the touch of mink,Leaving only trails of stardust.Your eyes could Pierce hearts, leaving eternal scars of that moment,Moments so bittersweet they linger upon the tastebuds of those who dare glance.You, Stain eyes with curiosityI dare not blink. -- L.V. HALL
  • I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try. -- Nathan Sawaya
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  • Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us. -- Antoine Rivarol
  • A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific. -- Curnonsky
  • Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you. -- Charles Hart
  • Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you. -- Charles Hart
  • And once again we plighted our troth, And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly. -- Heinrich Heine
  • In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress. -- Jose Bergamin
  • To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart. -- Voltaire
  • No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness. -- Frank Norris
  • The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress. -- Michael Foot
  • Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight. -- Adrian Mitchell
  • There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress". -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress. -- Maya Angelou
  • Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair. -- Harry Mulisch
  • One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. -- Margaret Atwood
  • Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216 -- Fatema Mernissi
  • May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul. -- Truth Devour
  • The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown. -- Bob Marley
  • Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress. -- Abdelkader El Djezairi
  • An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. -- Eric Maisel
  • Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride. -- Lou Reed
  • The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
  • I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me. -- Rita Webb
  • A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life. -- Facundo Cabral
  • That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors. -- Richard Wagner
  • Tell me, Kitten." That deep, smooth voice brushed over me like a physical caress. "Shall I leave now, or wait until later? -- Jeaniene Frost
  • I love silent conversations accompanied by a soft caress on my skin and my head on your chest listening to your heart desires. -- Nomthandazo Tsembeni
  • I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul. -- Truth Devour
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  • Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor. -- Roger Verge
  • Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life. -- Thomas Kinkade
  • At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression. -- Willis Regier
  • It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems. -- Charles Ferguson
  • And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses. -- Anais Nin
  • My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind. -- Nina Simone
  • My old trainer used to tell us not to blast, but to caress the ball whenever we took possession. If the ball were a woman... she would be spending all night with Berbatov. -- Ian Holloway
  • If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe. -- Euripides
  • Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress. -- Edith Wharton
  • For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress"¦ I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul. -- Nan Goldin
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