The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
Simone de BeauvoirJe crois que je comprends bien comment ca peut te faire. Nous avons essayée de batir notre amour par-delà les instants, mais seuls les instants sont surs. Pour le reste on a besoin de foi; et la foi, est-ce courage ou paresse?
Simone de BeauvoirYouth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
Simone de BeauvoirSome things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
Simone de BeauvoirMy life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
Simone de BeauvoirFathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: perception ideals expectations daughters fathers conforming
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
Simone de BeauvoirFew tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: housework repetition sisyphus
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: anti-oppression
Les livres que j'aimais devinrent une Bible où je puisais des conseils et des secours.
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