“What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead i…”

“What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Title: Wikiquote: Simone de Beauvoir
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Beauvoir, Simone de. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Simone de Beauvoir. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir

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