Vātsyāyana - Love Quotes

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Women are hardly ever known in their true light, though they may love men, or become indifferent towards them, may give them delight, or abandon them, or may extract from them all the wealth that they possess.

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Though a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.

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In short, nothing tends to increase love so much as the effects of marking with the nails, and biting.

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When a woman reproaches a man, but at the same time acts affectionately towards him, she should be made love to in every way. A woman, who meets a man in lonely places, and puts up with the touch of his foot, but pretends, on account of indecision of her mind, not to be aware of it, should be conquered by patience and by continued efforts.

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Anything may take place at any time, for love does not care for time or order.

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Kama is also learnt from the Kama Sutra (aphorisms on love) and from the practice of citizens.

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The whole subject of embracing is of such a nature that men who ask questions about it, or who hear about it, or who talk about it, acquire thereby a desire for enjoyment. Even those embraces that are not mentioned in the Kama Shastra should be practised at the time of sexual enjoyment, if they are in any way conducive to the increase of love or passion. The rules of the Shastra apply so long as the passion of man is middling, but when the wheel of love is once set in motion, there is then no Shastra and no order.

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... variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety.

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