She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...a…

Zadie Smith
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She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune. ✨ Zadie Smith (2006). On Beauty, p.192, Penguin UK
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She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune. ✨ Zadie Smith (2006). On Beauty, p.192, Penguin UK

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