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“All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“I've no personality,' I would tell myself. My curiosity embraced everything; I believed in an absolute truth, in the need for moral law; my thoughts adapted themselves to their objects; if occasionally one of them took me by surprise, it was because it reflected something that was surprising. I preferred good to evil and despised that which should be despised. I could find no trace of my own subjectivity. I had wanted myself to be boundless, and I had become as shapeless as the infinite. The paradox was that I became aware of this deficiency at the very moment when I discovered my individuality; my universal aspiration had seemed to me until then to exist in its own right; but now it had become a character trait: 'Simone is interested in everything.' I found myself limited by my refusal to be limited.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“The person who writes books must always be enveloped by a separation from others.”
― Marguerite Duras, Writing

“Nosotros, los del 68, somos enfermos de la esperanza, la esperanza es lo que se confía a las funciones del proletariado. Y a nosotros, ninguna ley, nada, ni nadie ni nada, nos curará de esa esperanza. Quisiera volver a afiliarme al PC. Pero, al mismo tiempo, sé que no será necesario. También quisiera dirigirme a la derecha e insultarla con todas mis fuerzas. El insulto, el insulto es tan fuerte como la escritura. Es una escritura, pero dirigida. He insultado a gente en mis artículos y produce tanta satisfacción como escribir un buen poema.”
― Marguerite Duras, Writing