but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.
Simone de BeauvoirAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: french
- Born: January 9, 1908
- Died: April 14, 1986
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