“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“What remains is solitude.”
― Marlene
― Marlene
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