"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

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I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

— Simone de Beauvoir