“Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?”
― Woman: An Intimate Geography
― Woman: An Intimate Geography
“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”
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Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”
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“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Love was the secret language of twins. It was the private code of a husband and a wife. It was the telegraph system of best friends. When you had it, a glance could suffice for ten minutes of talk. When you loved someone enough, you did not simply remember them. Some part of them was copied into you forever and so when they were gone they weren’t gone.”
― King Sorrow
― King Sorrow
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