I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren’t here, and just now – like a knife-slit – they are here, still dripping sweet blood. Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The idea of "lips are lips" is a common phrase that signifies the ubiquity of the human body. It's the one thing that everyone has in common, everyone has lips, all lips. We are all made up of lips, there are no exceptions. Not only are we all made up of our own set of lips, but we are also made up of other people’s lips. We are all connected through the lip-ring that is humanity, the perpetual bond or chain that keeps us all together.

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