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when I wake up I am devastated all over again project/secret-life

I wake in the middle of the night from a bad dream that was actually a good dream. In my dream I was pregnant. It was before and I was still pregnant. I was so relieved to find out I hadn’t lost the baby after all. And then when I wake up I am devastated all over again.

—p.28 Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
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there have always been ruins somewhere advice/living

'He's a monster,' Anne said. 'He'd work in the ruins of Hiroshima.'

'He is working in the ruins of Hiroshima.'

'Why not?' Dubreuilh asked. 'There have always been ruins somewhere.'

—p.240 The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
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you can't salvage everything

'Yes, it is a mistake,' he said to himself decisively. He had wanted to write about himself. Well, he had nothing in common with the person he had been in 1935. His political indifference, his curiosity, his ambition, all that stubborn insistence on individualism — how quickly it passed, how foolis…

—p.150 by Simone de Beauvoir
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we don't judge, we choose sides advice/living project/panopticon-epigraphs

To have been a Party member in Russia in 1930 wasn't a mistake,' Dubreuilh said.

'If you have no right to make a mistake, it was a crime.'

'It's not a question of right,' Dubreuilh replied.

'How dare you set yourselves up as judges?' Scriassine said, without listening to him. 'Do you know …

—p.119 by Simone de Beauvoir
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once more, I've jumped feet first into life

I am here. They are living, they speak to me, I'm alive. Once more, I've jumped feet first into life. Words are entering my ears; little by little, they take on meaning. Here are the estimates for the weekly and the layouts Henri suggests. Do I have an idea for, a name? None of the ones they've tho…

—p.610 by Simone de Beauvoir