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(page 233 of 621)
"'Elle disait ne pas être seulement coquette, ce qui était vrai. Dans ses moindres paroles perçait une grande indifférence, presque un mépris pour les hommes. Quand on parlait de quelque femme dont on ne comptait plus les amants, elle ouvrait de grands yeux d’enfant, des yeux surpris, en demandant : « Ça l’amuse donc ? » Elle oubliait sa beauté pendant des semaines, ne s’en souvenait que dans quelque besoin [...].'" — 20 hours, 28 min ago
"'Elle disait ne pas être seulement coquette, ce qui était vrai. Dans ses moindres paroles perçait une grande indifférence, presque un mépris pour les hommes. Quand on parlait de quelque femme dont on ne comptait plus les amants, elle ouvrait de grands yeux d’enfant, des yeux surpris, en demandant : « Ça l’amuse donc ? » Elle oubliait sa beauté pendant des semaines, ne s’en souvenait que dans quelque besoin [...].'" — 20 hours, 28 min ago
P.E. said:
"
Summary - in progress:I. The Evolutions of Classical Theory:
1. OVERVIEW
2. CENTER AND DEVELOPMENT
Center and Tempi
Pawn Hunt in the Opening
The - Very - Large Center
Mobile Pawn Centers
Giving Up the Center
3. MINORITIES, MAJORITIES AND PASSED PAWNS
Minority ...more "
progress:
(page 307 of 410)
"Pomar – Petrosian, Siegen 1970
An illustration of the ideas behind prophylaxis:
14...Tb8, 15...Tb7, 19...Fe8, 20...e6, 21...Txg7. Starting from an odd-looking opening and a rook placed on b7, Petrosian anticipates piece trades, allowing the black pieces to seize control over the f file.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess..." — Aug 23, 2026 03:01AM
"Pomar – Petrosian, Siegen 1970
An illustration of the ideas behind prophylaxis:
14...Tb8, 15...Tb7, 19...Fe8, 20...e6, 21...Txg7. Starting from an odd-looking opening and a rook placed on b7, Petrosian anticipates piece trades, allowing the black pieces to seize control over the f file.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess..." — Aug 23, 2026 03:01AM
“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― Measure for Measure
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― Measure for Measure
“Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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