Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

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• The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

  

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• The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  

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• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

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• I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.

  

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• The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Moving
  • Hopes
  • Escapes