Simone de Beauvoir quote: Why shouldn't a mystical theology be possible? 'I want to touch God or become God,' I declared in my journal. ...

Why shouldn't a mystical theology be possible? 'I want to touch God or become God,' I declared in my journal. All through that year I abandoned myself intermittently to these deliriums.

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

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