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The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

Source: Les Belles Images, ch. 3, 1966.
-- Simone de Beauvoir, (Jan 9 1908-1986), French writer; She was noted for her attack on the inferior role of women in The Second Sex, 1949.


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