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“Whereas man grows old gradually, woman is suddenly deprived of her femininity; she is still relatively young when she loses the erotic attractiveness and the fertility which, in the views of society and in her own, provide the justification for her existence and her opportunity for happiness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“How lovely that thing you are playing is! I wonder, did Chopin write it at Majorca, with the sea weeping round the villa and the salt spray dashing against the panes? It is marvellously romantic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I tell her I sing roses too, / My hands in the dirt where she lives forever”
― Sappho

“Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life, Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray