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Book: The Mandarins
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
Surviving one's own life, living on the other side of it like a spectator, is quite comfortable after all. You no longer expect anything, no longer fear anything, and every hour is like a memory.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling. I resolutely avoided bores, saw only those who amused me. We spent afternoons taking long walks, nights drinking and talking, and then we would leave each other, never to meet again, and there were no regrets. How simple life was. No regrets, no obligations, my acts and gestures counted for nothing, no one asked my advice, and I knew no other rule but my whims.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
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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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
I tried to love you less.I couldn't.
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Simone de Beauvoir _ The Mandarins
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.
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