I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed, 1967

Bleeding wounds as a symbol of: rotting from the inside out/ of a living corpse.

emily dickinson, the complete poems of emily dickinson, from a great hope fell / kim dorland, ghosts of you and me / candiedspit / tara love, do i claw my way out of the grave that my spirit had died in? / simone de beauvoir, from a letter to jean-paul sartre (paris, 21 february 1941) / alexandre jacques chantron, fallen leaves! / michael du plessis, the memoirs of jonbenet by kathy acker / andrea mantegna, st. sebastianmartha gellhorn, selected letters / simon marmion, man of sorrows / relative-pronoun / herman melville, moby dick / charles bukowski, pulp / dan o’bannon, the return of the living dead / haruki murakami, 1q84 / the terror, 2018 tv series / william cowper, b. 26 november 1731 / james whale, frankenstein / anton chekhov, from a diary entry featured in the notebook of anton chekhov / florence welch, king / mattia balsamini

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody. ~Simone de Beauvoir

(Book: The Prime of Life)

(Philo Thoughts)

Anyway here is the official menu for hot drinks from the Café de Flore :) yes you read that correctly they're charging 17€ for irish coffee :)

"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."

-- Simone De Beauvoir

"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying."

-- Simone De Beauvoir

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, 21 February 1941)

I think lots of nice things about you during the day, but I’m too tired to tell you them.

Simone de Beauvoir

the more theory i read on gender the more i realise its all a scam

どうにも乗り越えられない障害にぶつかった時は、頑固さほど役に立たないものはない。

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Simone de Beauvoir シモーヌ・ド・ボーヴォワール

“He was completely incapable of doing so [cooking] because he is a man.”

“But that is only the result of his masculine upbringing which kept him at one remove from various household chores.”

Simone de Beauvoir in an interview, saying how Sartre can't cook because of "masculine upbringing"

People learn electrical engineering and vascular surgery as adults but we are supposed to believe that men age out of the ability to learn to use a stove or a laundry machine.

After the Second Sex, Alice Schwarzer interview from 1973

1972 interview with simone de beauvoir:

Of course, it is too abstract to say, as I did for a time, that one must only fight the system. Of course one must fight men as well. After all, one is an accomplice, one still profits from the system, even if one hasn't created it oneself. The man of today didn't set up this patriarchal society but he profits from it, even if he is one of those who are critical of it. And he has made it very much a part of his own unconscious thinking.

One must fight the system, but at the same time one must approach men, if not with hostility exactly, then at least with suspicion, and with caution, and not let them trespass on our activities, our own potentialities. Women must attack both the system and men.

1973 interview with beauvior and sartre:

beauvoir: ...For example, Alice was saying recently that she cannot go out for a walk on the streets of Rome without feeling harassed all the time — that is simply not within your experience as a man. And when I told you about it, you said, 'What you say doesn't affect me particularly because I have never behaved in an aggressive way towards women.'

schwarzer (interviewer): That is more a reactionary response really. Would you also say, 'The fact that classes exist is not a bad thing because I, Sartre, have never done a worker any harm?' You would never dare!

sartre: But that isn't the same thing at all.

interviews from the book After The Second Sex, Alice Schwarzer

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Saturday, November 17

TEXT ID: Fui devorado por arrependimentos, medos, cansaço e amor.

He bears the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of himself, where his defeats are inscribed, and his victories as well. (Simone de Beauvoir; The Ethics of Ambiguity)

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir, All Men are Mortal

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Em thuộc về anh suốt ngàn kiếp chảy trôi—“dẫu đông hay xuân, dẫu trong sầu thương đớn cùng hay hân hoan vui sướng, usque ad mortem et plus ultra [cho đến tận ngày tàn lụi lìa đời và còn hơn cả thế].”

— Simone de Beauvoir, Nhật ký của một sinh viên Triết học, dịch bởi mình.

Tặng Natsuhi của em.

Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex

Text ID: In truth, all human existence is transcendence and immanence at the same time; to go beyond itself, it must maintain itself; to thrust itself toward the future, it must integrate the past into itself…

Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex

Text ID: seek self-fulfillment in transcendence