Seduction as a Market
Every person shines with a false splendor in the eyes
of someone else; everyone is envied while he himself
is envious.BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE
I was so shy that I always managed somehow to
commit the fault I was most anxious to avoid.VLADIMIR NABOKOV, The Real Life
of Sebastian Knight
We begin our careers in love without keys or rules, with bits of information picked up here and there. We don’t know the codes of this fabulous universe, and even if we eventually manage to learn them, they immediately change. This period in life (which sometimes continues a very long time) we call adolescence, during which we are dazzled by the beauty of other beings and amazed at our awkwardness in approaching them. For anyone who is not spoiled by the spirit of sorrow, the world is red-hot, a place of endless
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Publication information:
Book title: The Paradox of Love.
Contributors: Pascal Bruckner - Author, Steven Rendall - Translator.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2012.
Page number: 32.
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