“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
“Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.”
— Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 69, “Wind or Women’s Fancy” (p. 512)
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