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About a beautiful woman

About a beautiful woman
Excerpt from "Fallen Leaves" by Will Durant
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 Dinesh
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No one will believe me when I claim that I have often been aroused by the beauty of a woman without desiring her in any physical sense or degree; according to me my excitement was purely esthetic. Perhaps I deceive myself, and I will take no oath as to the lusts hiding in my “unconscious” or in my blood. But I insist that time and again I have longed to approach a woman timidly and thank her for being such a joy to behold, and that in this longing I felt no ambition to possess her, or even to touch her hand. ` Page 81

FALLEN LEAVES
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 Dinesh
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This minimal demand of being civilly disattendable, however, is very hard to meet for certain people. Take the beautiful: we do not blame them for their lack of disattendability ( (Meaning: Disattendability is partly about ignoring others, but it's also about acting in ways that don't attract too much attention to ourselves ) since they do not elicit our attention by disgust or alarm. They do, however, impose extra demands on our poise and tact, on our abilities to maintain decorum. There is a thin line between the looks or admiration these people have come to expect as their due and importunate gawking. . . . Page 199
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 Dinesh
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THE ANATOMY OF DISGUST
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