"Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill."

-- M. Ageyev

#Smell Quotes #Lust Quotes #Kitchen Quotes

“Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.”
“When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his auntâ€™s house and slip through into Fillory...itâ€™s like heâ€™s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.”
“Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.”
“In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. â€œExplainingâ€ them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.”
“Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.”
“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. Itâ€™s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an albumâ€™s price point is. I hope they donâ€™t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.”
“Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.”
“As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What I hate - a lot of conversations about choosing not to have children tend to be couched in these superficial terms, or kind of glib, "I'd rather have a Porsche" or "I forgot to have kids." No you didn't.”

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