The Mandarins

Simone de Beauvoir

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“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”

“She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.”

“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 is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.”

“I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.”

“Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.”

“People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.”

“She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.”

“All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.”

“I tried to love you less.I couldn't.”

“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 time”

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