Beauty Quote by James Tiptree Jr

“Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.”

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“Nothing but the effects of dust and vapor in the thin skin of air whereupon she crawls wingless.”

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