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“Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad.

“Yes,” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?”
― Doris Lessing, The Summer Before the Dark

“Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed