Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and rem…

Julian Barnes
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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. ✨ Julian Barnes (1984). Flaubert's parrot, Vintage
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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. ✨ Julian Barnes (1984). Flaubert's parrot, Vintage

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