“Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.” MayLostLateVictimForgottenDeceptionToo LateForgivenBetrayedIrrevocable Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris
“What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.” WayMayHas BeensDoneStrugglePaintingAmountDeceptionLabourSweat Author:Michelangelo
“All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.” MayHas BeensBrilliantDeceptionIllustration Author:Wendy Beckett
“It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.” WorldMayLittlesMadeDifferentRealFactsForceImaginationMemoriesCreationAbsolutesAvailableDeceptionWickedArbitraryDollsOutside WorldDummyReal Women Book:The Guermantes Way Source: The Guermantes Way