It is the punishment of the individual who is his own prey: alone he cannot end his solitude; in erecting barriers around his self, he erected those around the Other: he will never connect to it.
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation

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Author Simone de Beauvoir
Source The Second Sex
Topic punishment solitude
Date 1949
Language English
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Note Translated by Constance Borde and 
Sheila Malovany Chevallier
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