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Quotes About Temptation

Be aware; The woman still holds the apple spirit, to bring the man, to the heaven, and as well as causes to expel him from there.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Flirting is a side effect of evil thoughts.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Human is the creation and outcome of sex sin.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Most of us are running after money, sex, and power. To some or full extent, bearing the burden of the stress and making the own life terrible.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The beauty is the remote power towards sex; no one can stay without its influence and capture by it.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The eyes are the door of sin; the mind is the residence of it.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Money. Both cure and cause of so many evils, isn't it?
~ Eileen Wilks
Keep looking at me like that, and I'll change my mind. Forbidden fruit tastes sweetest. - Alysandir Mackinnon
~ Elaine Coffman
I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour.
~ Elaine Dundy
I thought of sex and sin; of my body and all the men in the world who would never sleep with it.
~ Elaine Dundy
The girl, perhaps without even realizing it, and who knows for how long, had been assessing the power of her swaying body, her restless eyes, on my husband; and he looked at her as one looks from a gray area at a white wall struck by the sun.
~ Elena Ferrante
Yet here she was insisting that I stay with her, to keep me from who knows what stormy sea, from who knows what abyss or precipice, all dangers that at that moment were represented in her eyes by Antonio. But staying near her meant staying in her world, becoming completely like her. And if I became like her, who would be right for me if not Antonio?
~ Elena Ferrante
In the crush men used the women to play silent games with themselves. One stared ironically at a dark-haired girl to see if she would lower her gaze. One, with his eyes, caught a bit of lace between two buttons of a blouse, or harpooned a strap. Others passed the time looking out the window into cars for a glimpse of an uncovered leg, the play of muscles as a foot pushed break or clutch, a hand absentmindedly scratching the inside of a thigh.
~ Elena Ferrante
answered slowly: I don't know, I don't want to know. And then I admitted that there had been a kind of admiration for her body, maybe that, yes, but I ruled out anything ever happening between us. Too much fear, if we had been seen we would have been beaten to death.
~ Elena Ferrante
But at times, as if a drug had flooder her veins, Lila seemed unable to bear the order she had imposed on herself.
~ Elena Ferrante
Even if we're continually tempted to lower our guard - for love or weariness, for sympathy or kindness - we women shouldn't do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we've achieved.
~ Elena Ferrante
Vice is basically the love of failure.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Der bequeme Fernsehstuhl breitet weit die Arme aus, leise ertönt die Signation zur Zeit im Bild, nüchtern regt sich der Nachrichtensprecher über seiner Krawatte. Auf dem Beistelltisch in beispielgebender Fülle und Buntheit eine sortierte Schüsselsammlung mit Naschereien, aus der sich die Damen abwechselnd oder zugleich bedienen. Wenn sie leer ist, wird sie sogleich nachgefüllt, es ist wie im Schlaraffenland, wo auch nichts zuende geht und nichts anfängt.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Va a costar mucho trabajo motivar a Sophie para cometer uno o varios crímenes, ya que su naturaleza la inclina a no esforzarse demasiado.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
I, however, have really never been anywhere yet, not because some sins or other could wrap themselves around me there, but because I'd rather sin at home, where God even announces the weather to me in advance on TV, slowly, so that I can write it down, in case it's worth the proper guilt. Sinning is enough, there's no need for surprises as well.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build on it if I were you.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
I had a slab of German chocolate cake the size of a child's tombstone. Ralph
~ Elif Batuman
but even with Varenka, Koznyshev almost proposed to her when they were picking mushrooms. Koznyshev had therefore at least contemplated having sex with Varenka. There were no women in that book with whom nobody thought about having sex.
~ Elif Batuman