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I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.


Gene Tierney


#hard #hard work #i #into #justified

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.


Victor Hugo


#surface #unknown

By Jove, it's great! Walk along the streets on some spring morning. The little women, daintily tripping along, seem to blossom out like flowers. What a delightful, charming sight! The dainty perfume of violet is everywhere. The city is gay, and everybody notices the women. By Jove, how tempting they are in their light, thin dresses, which occasionally give one a glimpse of the delicate pink flesh beneath! "One saunters along, head up, mind alert, and eyes open. I tell you it's great! You see her in the distance, while still a block away; you already know that she is going to please you at closer quarters. You can recognize her by the flower on her hat, the toss of her head, or her gait. She approaches, and you say to yourself: 'Look out, here she is!' You come closer to her and you devour her with your eyes. "Is it a young girl running errands for some store, a young woman returning from church, or hastening to see her lover? What do you care? Her well-rounded bosom shows through the thin waist. Oh, if you could only take her in your arms and fondle and kiss her! Her glance may be timid or bold, her hair light or dark. What difference does it make? She brushes against you, and a cold shiver runs down your spine. Ah, how you wish for her all day! How many of these dear creatures have I met this way, and how wildly in love I would have been had I known them more intimately. "Have you ever noticed that the ones we would love the most distractedly are those whom we never meet to know? Curious, isn't it? From time to time we barely catch a glimpse of some woman, the mere sight of whom thrills our senses. But it goes no further. When I think of all the adorable creatures that I have elbowed in the streets of Paris, I fairly rave. Who are they! Where are they? Where can I find them again? There is a proverb which says that happiness often passes our way; I am sure that I have often passed alongside the one who could have caught me like a linnet in the snare of her fresh beauty.


Guy de Maupassant


#maupassant #nouvelles #short-story #unknown #beauty

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez


#free #interpretation #less #make #more

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.


Miles Davis


#doing #i #known #legend #man

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.


Charles Dickens


#better thing #done #ever #far #go

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.


Alexis Bledel


#draw #fact #jerks #reason #some

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!


John Dryden


#busy #busy person #concealed #fate #find

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.


Shia LaBeouf


#i #know #room #unknown #walked

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.


Robert Duvall


#bright #city #city people #common #common sense






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