“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.” PeopleWantGivingLongArtWholeShowsLyingPleasureImagineAffairGood TimesCheerfulHospitalityEmbellishment Author:Isabel Fonseca
“There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons to them only according to its pleasure, just as a proprietor refuses at his pleasure admission into his house; they are a sort of administrative sanctuaries, into which no profane person can penetrate. These establishments, on the contrary, in the United States, are considered as belonging to all. The prisons are open to everyone who chooses to inspect them ad every visiter may inform himself of the order which regulates the interior.” MayPersonsCountryStatesGovernmentOrderHousePleasureUnitedUnited StatesPrisonAffairRefuseContraryBelongingAdsEstablishmentInteriorsPenetrateSanctuaryAdmissionProfaneAdministrative Author:Gustave de Beaumont
“Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself” SelfBodySexPleasureMeditationSelf LoveFunctionShameAffairIntenseConfusionBody ImageLove AffairLoathingMasturbationSelf LoathingIntense Love Author:Betty Dodson
“I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame” DesireInterestMy OwnPleasureFameAmbitionAffairEnvyJealousyEngagedAvaricePublic Affairs Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations