“It was an odd experience, this bringing to life of pages born of my pen and forgotten. From time to time they interested me -- they surprised me as much as if someone else had written them; yet I recognized the vocabulary, the shape of the sentences, the drive, the elliptical forms, the mannerisms. These pages were soaked through and through with my self -- there was a sickening intimacy about it, like the smell of a bedroom in which one has been shut up too long.”
“It was an odd experience, this bringing to life of pages born of my pen and forgotten. From time to time they interested me -- they surprised me as much as if someone else had written them; yet I recognized the vocabulary, the shape of the sentences, the drive, the elliptical forms, the mannerisms. These pages were soaked through and through with my self -- there was a sickening intimacy about it, like the smell of a bedroom in which one has been shut up too long.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more.”
Simone de Beauvoir“I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the distance between the living and the dead really isn't very great. And yet, like myself, those future corpses who were drinking their coffee in silence appeared ashamed to be so alive.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins“For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.--Simone de Beauvoir”
Gale Martin, Grace Unexpected“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
Simone de Beauvoir“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”
Simone de Beauvoir“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.”
Simone de Beauvoir“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
Simone de Beauvoir“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”
Simone de Beauvoir“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
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