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With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts.

Alice Kaplan

With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts.

Nous nous sommes dévoilés.

Alice Kaplan

Nous nous sommes dévoilés.

About Author
Alice Yaeger Kaplan (born June 22, 1954) is an American scholar of French literature. She is the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University and has written extensively on 20th-century French literature, history, and intellectual life.

The Bouviers and the Lees alike operated within the great American tradition of immigrant ambition, which held that in making yourself anew, you had the right to embellish the past.

Alice Kaplan

The Bouviers and the Lees alike operated within the great American tradition of immigrant ambition, which held that in making yourself anew, you had the right to embellish the past.

Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: This is what I saw and how I saw it. I have not tried to say more.

Alice Kaplan

Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: This is what I saw and how I saw it. I have not tried to say more.