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The Eyes are a Window into a Woman's Soul ....
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile - Mark Twain
I was browsing Robert Greene's book The Art of Seduction yesterday. It is an essential book for a writer of erotic tales. Apart from the main blocks of text, the margins are brimming with quotes from thousands of years of literature that illustrate his points.
When I read the one below, I thought of this thread.
Many of you will probably know it. Here it is for those who do not.
It is from Euripides The Trojan Women. The words are thousands of years old, translated by Neil Curry. They moved me profoundly when I first read them — don't ask me why.
They send a shiver every time I re-read them.
Hecuba speaking about Helen of Troy:
Menelaus, If you are really going to kill her
then my blessing go with you, but you must do it now
Before her looks so twist the strings of your heart
That they turn your mind; for her eyes are like armies,
And where her glances fall, there cities burn,
Until the dust of their ashes is blown
By her sighs. I know her, Menelaus
And so do you. And all those who know her suffer.
When I read the one below, I thought of this thread.
Many of you will probably know it. Here it is for those who do not.
It is from Euripides The Trojan Women. The words are thousands of years old, translated by Neil Curry. They moved me profoundly when I first read them — don't ask me why.
They send a shiver every time I re-read them.
Hecuba speaking about Helen of Troy:
Menelaus, If you are really going to kill her
then my blessing go with you, but you must do it now
Before her looks so twist the strings of your heart
That they turn your mind; for her eyes are like armies,
And where her glances fall, there cities burn,
Until the dust of their ashes is blown
By her sighs. I know her, Menelaus
And so do you. And all those who know her suffer.
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Fantastic quote ... such a truth
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile - Mark Twain
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile - Mark Twain
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile - Mark Twain
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile - Mark Twain
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile - Mark Twain
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile - Mark Twain
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile - Mark Twain
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Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile - Mark Twain
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