“Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a…”
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“Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.”

Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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