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Writing Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
- A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
- I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night…
- Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.
- There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what…
- A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
- I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and…
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