The distance between the ideal and the actual must not be so great as to demoralize, nor so small as to trivialize.

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• +.Beautiful piano
• +.electronic spiritual

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that the surface of the skin is where it is at, not deep within us, that the skin is the major motivational organ, and that a smile is where it appears to be. It is not in a group of happy cortical neurons, nor in the folds in the stomach. But like the pain of torture, the pleasure of sexual seduction, or the irresistible sleepiness at the site of the eyelids, that region is the site of exquisitely sensitive receptors on the surface of the skin, whether we’re talking about drives or pain or affects or whatever. Silvan Tomkins