There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's…

Djuna Barnes
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There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door? ✨ Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). Nightwood, p.144, New Directions Publishing
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There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door? ✨ Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). Nightwood, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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