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 BeauvoirFathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone de BeauvoirAnyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
Simone de Beauvoir