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Sensuality (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠stigmatized as damnable so thoroughly that for whole ages Christians probably begot children with a bad conscience.

Sensuality (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be modest — a little garden, figs, little cheeses and three or four good friends: these were the sensual pleasures of Epicurus.

Sensuality (n.) denied ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a piece of meat knows how to beg sweetly for a piece of spirit.

Sensuality (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠art today misfires, for the audience no longer has full sensuality, and the effect is a feeling of saintliness closely related to boredom.

Sensuality (n.) often ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠hastens the growth of love so much that its roots stay weak and are easily torn up.

Sensuality (n.) persuaded, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not formulas, is how Wagner advocates the beyond — and sensuality makes the spirit brittle and tired: music as Circe.

Sensuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠now met with a more innocuous, joyous, Goethean attitude — and the "pure fool" gets little credit.

Sensuality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠feared by the priest because it is the most serious threat to the order of castes — every liberal tendency in sexual matters throws the marriage laws overboard.

Sensuality (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the best-formed men is transfigured by an intoxication of the highest spirituality: spirit is at home in the senses as the senses are in spirit.