black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Simone de Beauvoir

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Change Fall Herself Touch
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Earth Myself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Effort Separate Togetherness
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Father Invention
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Freedom Spring Value
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Man Philosophy
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Creation Oppression War
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Generosity Myself True
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Fly Herself Wings
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Literature Place Religion
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Oneself Woman

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes