Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Book, Despair

  Simone de Beauvoir (1971). “The woman destroyed”

• I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Selfish, Work, Loneliness

• A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Book, Writing, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

• Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Book, Honest, Confession

• Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Book, Past, Doubt

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of Circumstance: Hard times”

• I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its contribution. At least, I hope so.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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