More from Simone De Beauvoir

  1. They were walking side by side, but each was alone.
  2. I was born in Italy on the 17th May 1279 in a castle in the city of Carmona.
  3. Dare to believe me. Dare!
  4. Even the children of Carmona were divided into two camps, and below the ramparts, among the brushwood and rocks, we battled with stones sho…
  5. 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…
  6. For the first time in my life, I took part in a real battle between men. The dead did not come to life again, the vanquished fled in disord…
  7. 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…
  8. It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

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