History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
Simone de BeauvoirWhat is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Simone de BeauvoirAnd without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
Simone de BeauvoirThe day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: existentialism
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
Simone de BeauvoirAll the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.
Simone de BeauvoirEvery individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects. pg. xxxiii
Simone de BeauvoirThere is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Simone de Beauvoir...le parole fissano la verità solo dopo averla assassinata; lasciano sfuggire ciò che v'è in essa di più importante: la sua presenza.
Simone de BeauvoirMy overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the closed venetian blinds on a hot afternoon, makes the whole magnificence of summer blaze in my mind; whereas if I face its direct harsh glare it blinds me.
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