| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6129 |
| QUOTATION: | Sex pleasure in woman ... is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Simone De Beauvoir (19081986), French novelist, essayist. The Second Sex, bk. 2, pt. 4, ch. 3 (1953). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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