I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Je souhairtais que toute vie humaine fut une pure liberte transparente.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Blood of Others

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Topic

Liberation

Author

Simone de Beauvoir

Source

The Blood of Others

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Wish

Language

French

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Feminist Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Sang des autres [The Blood of Others]. Gallimard, 1945, ch. 5.

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Time
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Another quote originally in French

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière [The Prisoner]. Paris: Gallimard, 1923.

Current Citation

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