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"She rises when the sun sets and goes immediately to her table
where she plays her game of patience until she grows hungry,
until she becomes ravenous.  She is so beautiful she is
unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none
of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections
that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition.
Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder; of her soullessness."
- the lady of the house of love 
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