If I had amnesia, I'd be almost like other men. Perhaps I'd even be able to love you.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- She imagines that losing memory could make her more like other men and possibly capable of love.
- In plain terms
- Amnesia might let her love like anyone else.
- What can you take from it?
- Our memories shape how we relate to others.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does your past influence your ability to love?
- Can you love without recalling specific events?
Another view
Amnesia is unrealistic; love depends on more than memory.
More from Simone De Beauvoir
Time is beginning to flow again.
Permalink to quote #14 You made me come to Paris. You pestered me to start living again. Well, now it's up to you to make my life livable. You mustn't let three whole days go by with…
Permalink to quote #16 She was beautiful, with a beauty so severe and so solitary that at first it was startling. 'Ah! If only there were two of me,' she thought, 'one doing the talk…
Permalink to quote #13
Related quotes
I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister - an…
Willa CatherWilla Cather quote #42 He'll remember me. And I'll feel it. I'll know that I was known, that I am known. That someone holds me in his heart
Orson Scott CardOrson Scott Card quote #673 My strongest memories are yours
Orson Scott CardOrson Scott Card quote #1015