Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

Simone de Beauvoir

• Heart
• Suicide
• Spine

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  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Heart
  • Suicide
  • Spine