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William Shakespeare

Deliver me thy bosom, oh beauty,

And I'll fly my flag at full mast for thee.

Prithee, I am undone by thy favors

And sooth, I'll write an ode to she who gave hers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart? What other lantern is so bright as the picture of your beauty? Send me your lantern, posthaste!

Edgar Allan Poe

This weary sack of tired bone,

Desirous, still, of earthly delight,

Seeks from ye pleasures yet unknown

To lift the curtain of darkest night.

Oh! Your beauty doth my soul refresh

And yet does death creep still nearby.

Give me an image of thy flesh,

For darkness waits beyond thy thigh!

George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear, and to send people what they do want to receive, if you catch my drift.

Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks. Would you care to send me proof of your friendship?

James Joyce

When you walk by in your bathing suit and low-neck and all manner of feminine getup I'll watch though I certainly didn't ask you to God help the world if women of your sort ever walk by again and again and again and again but do walk by again if you please I never asked you to but I'll watch if you send a smutty photo I suppose one day I'll have to marry a woman like you and bring you half-dead flowers from the market but until then I'll watch you walk by in your low-neck or look at your smutty photos and I'll have some eggs too I found some garters in her room on Friday while I listened to the gramophone and I squeezed them into my hand while I thought about what boys feel and growing red in the face I went out dancing then I went to bed with muddy boots still on my feet and I wanted you to send a smutty photo the landlady was late with breakfast once more but it doesn't matter for Lord Byron was laughing in the kitchen again

Ernest Hemingway

Send nudes.