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Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Quotes: It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
         

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.


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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
         



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