"When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[…]."

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
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"I want everything – love, adventure, intimacy, work."

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Leonard Woolf     (via love-lesbelleschoses)

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