Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. ✨ Simo…

Simone de Beauvoir
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Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1965). The prime of life
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Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1965). The prime of life

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