“I no longer really recognize either myself or the old world. Yet there are the memories — the memories with yourself, in that former life. But they have a strange effect, rather harrowing, because they’re so little related to the present. I’d really like to feel I was talking to you and you could hear me.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre c. December 1945 featured in Letters to Sartre
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