The Mummy

“The horror was, Cleopatra meant something to these modern people of the twentieth century which was altogether wrong. She had become a symbol of licentiousness, when in fact she had possessed a multitude of amazing talents. They had punished her for her one flaw by forgetting everything else…Remembered, but not for what she was. A painted whore lying on a silken couch. - Ramses”

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“When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true desires—what we would have when that which we do have so sorely disappoints us”

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“She felt herself turning inward, away from all of it, back into the darkness, into the dark water whence she’d come.”

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“Ah, the nipples of men, so tender; such a key to torment and ecstacy; how he writhed as she twisted then ever so gently, her tongue daring in and out of his mouth.”

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“Lying is actually an underated social skill. Some clever person should write a polite guide to lying. And all the charitable principles which justifiy lying so well.”

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“His throat felt like marble. She could not snap the bones! But he could not throw her off, either, no matter how hard he tried.”

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“I found her irresistible, as I found you irresistible. It was the mystery. I wanted to seize it. Move into it. Besides…” “Yes.” “She was…a living thing. A being in pain.”

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“It was so simple to smile at him; he deserved one’s tenderest smile.”

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