“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.”
Source: A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 3
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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes
“If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.”
Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
Source: Works of Samuel Johnson
“Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,
The source of motion.”
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Heat considered as a Mode of Motion" (title of a treatise, 1863), John Tyndall.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 2 : Science and Hope
Context: I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us-then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 30
“The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.”
Principles of Social Reconstruction (1917), Ch. II: The State
1910s