Edward Bernays, Freud’s nephew who founded the country’s first public relations firm in 1919, ‘consciously used Freud’s idea of a latent but powerful sexuality as a form of subliminal seduction to manipulate the masses.’
“Coming home! The moon’s crescent hangs onto the afternoon as if it is going to slip off the day and fall down with all the blinking strawberry blossom stars along the shoulder of this road that takes me home.”
― A Book of Dreams
― A Book of Dreams
“Perhaps, Kublai thought, the empire is nothing but a zodiac of the mind’s phantasms.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“Looking for trouble, he’d say. You’re gonna look till you find it. Trouble is the looker, she’d answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.”
― A Darker Shade of Magic
― A Darker Shade of Magic
“Death comes for everyone," she said simply. "I'm not afraid of dying. But I am afraid of dying here." She swept her hand over the room, the tavern, the city. "I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― A Darker Shade of Magic
― A Darker Shade of Magic
“There is no language without deceit.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
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