Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Simone de Beauvoir

Turkey - 2006

1. "Ah! If only there were two of me," she thought, "one who spoke and one who listened, one who lived and the other who watched, how I would love myself! I'd envy no one."
2. "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
3. “It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”
4. “Like everybody else, I am incapable of conceiving infinity; and yet I do not accept finity.”
5. “Live with no time out.”
6. “Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.”
7. "Sex pleasure in woman. It is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken."
8. “The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed ccording to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.”