For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one…

Virginia Woolf
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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together ✨ Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). Orlando: A Biography, p.70, Oxford University Press, USA
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