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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
“In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”
Simone de Beauvoir on Atheism, the Ultimate Frontier of Hope, and the Key to Moving Beyond the Simplistic Divide of Optimism and Pessimism
“To fight unhappiness one must first expose it, which means that one must dispel the mystifications behind which it is hidden so that people do not have to think about it.”
Simone de Beauvoir on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
“The saving of time and the conquest of leisure have no meaning if we are not moved by the laugh of a child at play.”
A Breakup Letter from Simone de Beauvoir
“I can still feel warm and happy and harshly grateful when I look at you inside me.”
Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality of How Chance Composes Our Lives
“Human lives… are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence… into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual’s life.”
Simone de Beauvoir on the Artist’s Task to Liberate the Present from the Past
“The artist … must first will freedom within himself and universally; he must try to conquer it.”
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are
“My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this moment.”
Simone de Beauvoir on Vitality, the Measure of Intelligence, and What Freedom Really Means
“There is vitality only by means of free generosity. Intelligence supposes good will… Sensitivity is nothing else but the presence which is attentive to the world and to itself.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders
“Into the space ship, Granny.”
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