Love is the first lie; wisdom the last. ✨ Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns…

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Love is the first lie; wisdom the last. ✨ Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). Nightwood, p.147, New Directions Publishing
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