“He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!”
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An ironic tale of life and love in the French intellectual class.
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Simone de Beauvoir
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“He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!”
“In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you ki...”
“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”