"After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms."

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Source : Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask (1997). “History of My Life”, p.50, JHU Press

Giacomo Casanova

#Beautiful Quotes #Mind Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more....”
“Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.”
“One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.”
“Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.”
“The one place you don't want to wear shorts is any major awards show. You can wear them to the Teen Choice or Kids' Choice awards, but not the Oscars or the Emmys.”
“My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you.”
“Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.”
“One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones â€“ I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents”

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