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“Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“As Simone de Beauvoir had told us, women are not supposed to eclipse men in a world in which success and power are marked out for them. It is not easy to take up the historic privilege of dominance over women... if he is economically dependent on her talents. At the same time, she receives the fatal message that she must conceal her talents and abilities in order to be loved by him.”
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
― The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Becoming serious was not the same thing as approaching truth, I sensed, however vaguely.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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