Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Mistake
  • Writer
  • Conclude