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Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said ... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret? - Willa Cather
Attribution: Willa Cather (1873–1947), U.S. novelist. Niel Herbert, in A Lost Lady, part I, ch. VII (1923). The disillusioned protagonist reflects bitterly on the treacheries of women after discovering (through eavesdropping) that Marian Forrester, whom he has idealized, is having an affair.

Categories: Beauty, Treason And Treachery, Women

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