"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
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"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.“
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