Mood and whatever else strikes my fancy...

[Orchidea73]

“But what can you do with another person's beauty? The satisfied lover is as little able to possess the beauty of his beloved as the one who hopelessly observes it from afar.”

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[Orchidea73]

“Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure in beauty is curious: it aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds.”

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3f/18/49/3f1849721d1798c98377f9ffeeb9209e.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

“One cure for the pain of desecration is the move towards total PROFANATION: in other words, to wipe out all vestiges of sanctity from the once worshipped object, to make it merely a thing OF the world, and not just a thing IN the world, something that is nothing over and above the substitutes that can at any time replace it. A profanation that removes the sexual bond entirely from the realm of intrinsic values. It involves wiping out one area in which the idea of the beautiful had taken root, so as to protect ourselves from the possibility of loving it and therefore losing it.”

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1d/d9/2a/1dd92abeeef2ee422504cd8a3bf667fe.jpg

 

[FranklyFrank]

“Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure in beauty is curious: it aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds.”

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3f/18/49/3f1849721d1798c98377f9ffeeb9209e.jpg

Then it has found great value in you.

 

[Orchidea73]

"The most ordinary people fall in love: but how many can describe the intentionality of this strange emotion, or find the concepts which describe the way in which lovers experience the world? Similarly, the most ordinary people make judgements of natural beauty, even though few if any could express what they perceive, when the world before them suddenly changes character, from a thing to be used to a thing to be witnessed.”

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/bf/20/ca/bf20ca45ece184e13257d1fa9dd77321.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

Then it has found great value in you.

 

[Orchidea73]

"Sexual feeling is not a sensation that can be turned on and off at will: it is a tribute from one self to another and—at its height— an incandescent revelation of what you are."

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/07/ea/ab/07eaab6340e32ac1b9419cab87fd1346.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

“The experience of beauty guides us along this second path: it tells us that we are at home in the world, that the world is already ordered in our perceptions as a place fit for the lives of beings like us. But beings like us become at home in the world only by acknowledging our ‘fallen’ condition, as Eliot acknowledged it in The Waste Land. Hence the experience of beauty also points us beyond this world, to a ‘kingdom of ends’ in which our immortal longings and our desire for perfection are finally answered."

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7e/43/cf/7e43cf5a76502fbb311523cc301757f5.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

"You can trade in idols, swap them around, try out new versions, see which one responds best to prayer, and which one strikes the best bargains. And all this is a profanation, since it involves trading that which cannot be traded without ceasing to be, which is the sacred object itself.”

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/01/b3/28/01b328b87dc874b0dbb12b9d5a966600.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

"The feeling for beauty is proximate to the religious frame of mind, arising from a humble sense of living with imperfections, while aspiring towards the highest unity with the transcendental."

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f6/43/17/f6431753014dfe1c54f59470a41d775e.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

“Beauty is an ultimate value—something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.”

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f1/5a/28/f15a28a559cd187872f692e8c30c72de.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”

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[Orchidea73]

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[Orchidea73]

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[Orchidea73]

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[Orchidea73]

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[Orchidea73]

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[Orchidea73]

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[Orchidea73]

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[Orchidea73]

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[hotwords229_A]

I’m sure these are sexy pics, but I personally can’t stop looking at your AV!
Good Lord!!!

 

[default24]

I’m sure these are sexy pics, but I personally can’t stop looking at your AV!
Good Lord!!!

Psst, check out the lingerie challenge! It's

 

[Orchidea73]

I’m sure these are sexy pics, but I personally can’t stop looking at your AV!
Good Lord!!!

Psst, check out the lingerie challenge! It's

LOL

Good to see you, curve. You've been missed.

 

[default24]

LOL

Good to see you, curve. You've been missed.

I've been around here and there. Obviously not in this thread nearly enough though

 

[Orchidea73]

I've been around here and there. Obviously not in this thread nearly enough though

Obviously.
There is that curve which is always a delight to see. So, I forgive you.