Ian Benjamin’s Reviews > The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues > Status Update

She can turn a nice phrase, but she seems to sometimes get lost in her own lyricism.

"...it is less by aiming yourself in the direction of your future that you will affect the tenor of your times than by immersing yourself in the present." #truth, so much truth

"But in fact, since most of us, much of the time, are focused more on the past or the future than on what is here now..." #truth

"Those who would dominate are soon bored by their own powers. And correspondingly, desire is excited by the presence of a spirited soul--independent, unpredictable, jincandescent with the mysteries of a separate being."