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“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex