Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curiou…

Simone de Beauvoir
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Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me. ✨ Simone De Beauvoir (2013). The Woman Destroyed, p.186, Pantheon
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Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me. ✨ Simone De Beauvoir (2013). The Woman Destroyed, p.186, Pantheon

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