This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
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The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.Simone de Beauvoir
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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