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I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.

I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.

Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Simone de Beauvoir
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
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