When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
Simone de BeauvoirThere has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
Simone de BeauvoirIt is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de BeauvoirOld age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
Simone de BeauvoirWork would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
Simone de BeauvoirVirginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.
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