We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it. (Simone de Beauvoir)

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Simone de Beauvoir

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