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Day Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
- I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night…
- Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
- She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
- I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
- On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but…
- A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
- The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It…
- …but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth:…
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