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The Coming of Age by Simone De Beauvoir (1996-06-17)

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“Now, at thirty-eight, I was reduced to nothing, I couldn’t even act as I thought I should. No work, no husband, numbed, blunted.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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