A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day when he should not. But we do not choose the day for the sea. She chooses it for us.
— Simone de Beauvoir Modern

Feminist existentialism

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The Mandarins

Date / Period

1954

Category

Strange & Unusual

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1183201-a-man-who-is-not-afraid-of-the-sea

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