Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Old 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 Beauvoir

• Mirror
• Old Age
• Paralyzed

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• Old 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 Beauvoir
  • Mirror
  • Old Age
  • Paralyzed