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It was Domna's frailty, as a young and egoistic person, to experience in a heightened way a common subjective illusion, which was that her own life w… - Mary McCarthy
" "It was Domna's frailty, as a young and egoistic person, to experience in a heightened way a common subjective illusion, which was that her own life was free, determined only by voluntary choices, while the lives of other people around her were subject to harsh necessity.
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Mary Therese McCarthy (21 June 1912 – 25 October 1989) was an American author and critic.
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People sometimes say that they envied the Communists because they were so "sure." In my case this was not exactly it; I was sure, too, intellectually speaking, as far as I went. That is, I had a clear mind and was reasonably honest, while many of the Communists I knew were pathetically fogged up. In any case, my soul was not particularly hot for certainties.
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