like the child, man is fascinated by these shadowy and closed places never yet touched by animating consciousness, waiting to be lent a soul; it seems to him that he in fact created what he is the only one to grasp and penetrate.
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Author Simone de Beauvoir
Source The Second Sex
Topic consciousness waiting
Date 1949
Language English
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Note Translated by Constance Borde and 
Sheila Malovany Chevallier
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