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  1. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    The people of former times {...} they're dead that's the only thing they have over the living but in their own day they were just as sickening. Picturesqueness: I don't fall for that not for one minute. Stinking filthy dirty washing cabbage-stalks what a pretentious fool you have to be to go into such ecstasies over that! And it's the same thing everywhere all the time whether they're stuffing themselves with chips paella or pizza it's the same crew a filthy crew the rich who trample over you the poor who hate you for your money the old who dodder the young who sneer the men who show off the women who open their legs. I'd rather stay at home reading a thriller although they've become so dreary nowadays. The telly too what a clapped-out set of fools! I was made for another planet altogether I mistook the way.
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  2. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    If you point out that they're walking in shit they scream it's you that have dirty feet."
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  3. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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  4. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off."
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  5. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success."
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  6. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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  7. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
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  8. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    There was still a question in her eyes-- one that she did not like to put into words.
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  9. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.
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  10. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    --There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time.--But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.
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  11. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.
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  12. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes."
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