Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one' — Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one' — Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one' — Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one' — Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one' — Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
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Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if for only a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.

— Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
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