More from Simone De Beauvoir

  1. He had not applauded, he had remained seated, but he had looked at her steadily. From the depths of eternity he had looked at her and Rosal…
  2. They were walking side by side, but each was alone.
  3. One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is…
  4. You're unique like all other women.
  5. He walks in the street, a picture of modesty in his felt hat and his gabardine suit, and all the while he's thinking, 'I'm immortal.' The w…
  6. I was born in Italy on the 17th May 1279 in a castle in the city of Carmona.
  7. I'm never afraid. But in my case it's nothing to be proud of.
  8. Even the children of Carmona were divided into two camps, and below the ramparts, among the brushwood and rocks, we battled with stones sho…

All Simone De Beauvoir quotes