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Quotes About Fascination

Per Sherlock Holmes ella è sempre la donna. Raramente l'ho sentito accennare a lei in altro modo. Ai suoi occhi, supera e annulla tutte le altre esponenti del suo sesso.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
las mujeres suelen interesarse por todo lo que es nebuloso, misterioso, indefinido.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Zašto me tako ?udno umirivao pogled na njega?
~ Arthur Golden
Când Hatsumomo trecea pe lâng? mine pe coridor, în toat? splendoarea ei, cu machiajul alb str?lucind deasupra chimonoului întunecat, ca luna pe cerul palid al nopÈ›ii, sunt sigur? c? È™i un orb ar fi g?sit-o frumoas?.
~ Arthur Golden
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Kant's old hat; the autographs of great men; these things are gaped at with interest and awe by many who have never read their works. They cannot do anything more than just gape. The intelligent amongst them are moved by the wish to see the objects which the great man habitually had before his eyes; and by a strange illusion, these produce the mistaken notion that with the objects they are bring back the man himself.
~ Arthur Schopenhaur
Margaret Kochamma found herself drawn towards him like a plant in a dark room towards a wedge of light.
~ Arundhati Roy
I soon adapted to Muriel's fascination with gay bars. Whenever she came to the city, she explained to me, she came to go barring. She never felt truly alive except in gay bars, she said, and needed them like a shot in the arm.
~ Audre Lorde
handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.
~ Augusten Burroughs
To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Happiness is a wonderful goal for those who are inclined on a genetic level toward that emotional end of the spectrum. Happiness is a treadmill of a goal for people who are not happy by nature. Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Pain is interesting. I dislike it immensely but I've never experienced pain and boredom at the same time. Even when I had unending and severe pain in my lower back for several years I was never bored by the pain, though it exhausted me.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I mean, handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.
~ Augusten Burroughs
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
~ Ayn Rand
I've wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.
~ Ayn Rand
Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.
~ Stacy Schiff
She was beautiful all right, beautiful in a way that was at once seductive, demonic, and raspberry.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
quedasteis fascinados por el pensamiento, cuya cercanía era especialmente penetrante dado que poseía un carácter introspectivo, y a la vez misterioso porque era más difícil de atrapar que las estrellas mismas. Os imponía la sabiduría, mientras que el código era irreflexivo.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I am looking at her and she is so beautiful.
~ Stephen Chbosky
the human eye is lustful; it craves the novel, the unusual, the spectacular.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.
~ Stephen Fry