“If everything in a dream were realistic, it would have no power over us; if everything were unreal, we would feel less involved in its pleasures and fears. Its fusion of the two is what makes it haunting.”
― The Art of Seduction
― The Art of Seduction
“Men do not understand how women think, and vice versa; each tries to make the other act more like a member of their own sex.”
― The Art of Seduction
― The Art of Seduction
“When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.”
― The Art of Seduction
― The Art of Seduction
“Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.”
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“In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
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