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she was hungrier to change than I expected for/pq-done inspo/characterisation inspo/revelation misc/representation project/panopticon-epigraphs

After that month in Cairo she was muted, read constantly, kept more to herself, as if something had occurred or she realized suddenly that wondrous thing about the human being, it can change. She did not have to remain a socialite who had married an adventurer. She was discovering herself. It was p…

—p.230 The English Patient The Cave of Swimmers (227) by Michael Ondaatje
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in the beginning was defeat advice/living

In the beginning was defeat. Anyone who wishes to understand the nature of contemporary critical thinking must start from this fact.

From the second half of the 1970s, the protest movements born in the late 1950s, but which were inheritors of much older movements, went into decline. The reasons …

—p.7 Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory The Defeat of Critical Thinking (1977–93) (7) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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it's better to be the pilot advice/living

She began going through the press clippings, and Henri opened a letter, a very amiable letter from a young man. There were a lot of amiable letters, and usually they pleased him. But that night, without quite knowing why, it irritated him to think that in the eyes of certain people he passed for a …

—p.602 The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
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a proper life in a society which isn't proper inspo/dialogue

'Oh, you can't deny yourself everything,' Dubreuilh said with a kind of impatience. 'Ascetism is all right if it's spontaneous, but for that you've got to have positive satisfactions elsewhere. And in the world of today, there aren't many. Let me tell you something. If you hadn't slept with Josette…

—p.518 by Simone de Beauvoir
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you haven't put anything of yourself into them advice/writing

'That's just what I ought to do.' There was a brief silence and then suddenly Henri decided the moment had come to unburden himself. 'I brought back your stories,' he said. He smiled at Lambert. 'It's funny, you've had lots of interesting experiences, you've lived them hard, and I've often been fas…

—p.145 by Simone de Beauvoir