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“What is it we drink to?"
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"A lot of things. Life. Freedom. The sea.”
― Anthony Burgess, The Wanting Seed

“Unveiling this woman is revealing her beauty; it is baring her secret, breaking her resistance, making her avail­able for adventure. Hiding the face is also disguising a secret; it is also creating a world of mystery, of the hidden. In a confused way, the European experiences his relation with the Algerian woman at a highly complex level. There is in it the will to bring this woman within his reach, to make her a possible ob­ject of possession.

This woman who sees without being seen frustrates the colo­nizer. There is no reciprocity. She does not yield herself, does not give herself, does not offer herself.”
― Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism

“She is back in the garden of her childhood, back to the native original Hedja, child of nature and succulence and sweets, of pillows and erotic literature.”
― Anaïs Nin, Under a Glass Bell

“Her face is white, covered in lime, algae skeletons, beer froth, and sea foam. I stroke her head, smooth and bare and shining: a glistening doorknob without a door.”
― Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot