Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the i…

Jeanette Winterson
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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2007). Sexing the Cherry, p.115, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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