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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!
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