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Time Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a…
- 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…
- Live with no time-out.
- The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists…
- --There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too.…
- My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour…
- My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the…
- She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
- I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
- Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
- He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each…
- In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it…
- Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed…
- I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
- For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it,…
- I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it…
- Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside…
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