The Woman Destroyed

by Simone de Beauvoir
France
9 Jan 1908 // 14 Apr 1986
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Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

The Woman Destroyed
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

The Woman Destroyed
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.

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Simone de Beauvoir

 

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