Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.
Simone de BeauvoirBecause we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
Simone de BeauvoirThe ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
Simone de Beauvoir