"He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward."

-- Tanith Lee

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“She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.”
“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.”
“True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.”

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“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.”
“I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.”
“Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.”

Source : Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.34, Verso
“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”
“But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.”

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