Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex
Bk. 2, Pt.. 4, Ch. 3: Sexual Initiation. p. 396
The Second Sex (1949)
“The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.”
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, book Eugene Aram
Eugene Aram (1832), Book i, Chapter vii.
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