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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: adultery, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, cheat, cheater, cheaters, cheating, commit, commitment, concubine, concubines, courtesan, courtesans, date, dating, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, heartbreak, heartbreaker, heartbreakers, heartbreaking, heartbroken, hetaera, hetaerae, hetaeras, hetaira, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, hurt, hurting, hurts, infidelity, joke, jokes, kept-woman, kept-women, love, marriage, marriages, marry, mistress, mistresses, relationship, relationships, satire, side-chick, side-chicks, side-dick, side-dicks, wedding, weddings
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Honoré de Balzac
“Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
tags: courtesans, happiness, loneliness, love, pleasure, relationships, sadness, sorrow
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Susan Griffin
“Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.”
― Susan Griffin
tags: courtesans, virtue, women
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Alexandre Dumas fils
“Hänen kasvonsa olivat vakavat ja hymynsä arvokas, ja se joka vain näki millä tavoin hän käveli saattoi sanoa samoin kuin Elleviou kerran eräästä hovinaisesta: "Tuo nainen on varmasti joko ilotyttö tai herttuatar.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias
tags: courtesans
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Marcel Proust
“Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
tags: actress, actresses, courtesans, prostitutes
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Brent Weeks
“A megértés különbözteti meg a kurtizánt a szajhától. Minden egyes férfinak, aki belép az ajtómon, a bőrébe bújok. Ha ismerem a férfit, tudom, hogyan tegyek a kedvére. Tudom, hogyan irányítsam úgy, hogy megpróbálja megvásárolni a szerelmemet, és versenyezzen a többiekkel, akik ugyanezt szeretnék, de ne legyen rájuk féltékeny.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
tags: courtesans, hungarian, whores
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