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“The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Wikiquote: Simone de Beauvoir
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Context

On her work All Men are Mortal in Force of Circumstances (1963), p. 73

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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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