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“In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair weather relationship, preferring to set up a window dressing of fake satisfaction rather than being rejected as emotional outcasts. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
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“It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend.”
― Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner
― Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner

“The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.”
― Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
― Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

“In a sense, the media is a moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact.”
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