"Women play with their beauty as children..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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“Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”
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