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Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée | Simone de Beauvoir
«Je rêvais d'être ma propre cause et ma propre fin ; je pensais à présent que la littérature me permettrait de réaliser ce vœu. Elle m'assurerait une immortalité qui compenserait l'éternité perdue ; il n'y avait plus de Dieu pour m'aimer, mais je brûlerais dans des millions de cœurs. En écrivant une œuvre nourrie de mon histoire, je me créerais moi-même à neuf et je justifierais mon existence. En même temps, je servirais l'humanité : quel plus beau cadeau lui faire que des livres? Je m'intéressais à la fois à moi et aux autres ; j'acceptais mon incarnation mais je ne voulais pas renoncer à l'universel : ce projet conciliait tout ; il flattait toutes les aspirations qui s'étaient développées en moi au cours de ces quinze années.»
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Chavelafab
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir
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I have re read this book as I have developed an interest in Simone recently. The book ends with her emancipation and the death of her best friend. Such different times the pressure of bourgeois values and Catholicism on women and girls.

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir
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It is quite challenging to read such a memoir; it requires time and patience and a certain state of mind, an openness to absorb the unfolding of a life in a different era, down to the tiniest detail.
“Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.â€

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Aliciaperezhelguera
Memorias De Una Joven Formal | Simone de Beauvoir
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Bertha_Mason
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir

"After all, I had created this image of him in my mind quite without his authorization, and now I was beginning to think that perhaps he did not in the least resemble it."
Mood.

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Bertha_Mason
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir

"The presence of a person is so complete, his absence so final; there seemed to be nothing between the two extremes."

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Bertha_Mason
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir

"...a kind of office whose shutters were always closed and that served as a kind of lumber room or glory-hole."
Historical culture shock is when you have to hurriedly look up the early-twentieth-century meaning of present-day porno terminology. ?

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Bertha_Mason
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir

Damn, Beauvoir was kinky as hell.

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Bertha_Mason
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir

"I liked the neatly trimmed yews in Aunt Alice's garden, the sacramental odour of box, and, in a thatched arbour, an object as delightfully equivocal as a watch made of raw meat--a rock which was also a table, a stone table."
Today in odd similes.

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Bertha_Mason
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir

"On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. [...] I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of black-currant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth."

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Bertha_Mason
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir

"When I was grown-up I wanted to crunch flowering almond trees, and take bites out of the rainbow nougat of the sunset. Against the night sky of New York, the neon signs appeared to me like giant sweetmeats and made me feel frustrated."

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Reviewsbylola
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir
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#layallyourloveonme I read this book years and years ago and enjoyed it. de Beauvoir‘s memoir chronicles her childhood and coming of age and even the beginning of her relationship with Jean Paul Sartre. Quite the odd couple, they were together for decades but never married or lived together. I‘ve seen their relationship called a “soul marriageâ€. â¤ï¸â¤ï¸ #abbainaugust

batsy I want to read this! â¤ï¸ 6y
Cinfhen They look mean and creepy... that photo seems sinister ~ don‘t U agree @Meredith3 ??? (edited) 6y
Cathythoughts I‘m a fan of both ... but @cinfhen the pic is a bit creepy 6y
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Reviewsbylola 🤣🤣🤣🤣 @Cinfhen @cathythoughts I‘m sure I would be way to intimidated to ever talk to them. If they were alive lol. (edited) 6y
Meredith3 @Cinfhen agreed! 🖤😸💀 6y
Cinfhen Thanks for backing me @Cathythoughts I‘m pretty good at reading people...I think I‘m unto something @Reviewsbylola @meredith3ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚ 6y
emilyhaldi @Cinfhen I really appreciate that @Meredith3 is your go-to judge of the “creep factor†😂 that‘s perfect ðŸ‘🻠6y
Cinfhen Hahahahaha @emilyhaldi 6y
Meredith3 @emilyhaldi @Cinfhen I know a thing or two about what it takes to be creepy 😺😸😹 6y
Mdargusch 😂😂😂 6y
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silvia_feliceconunlibro
Memorie di una ragazza perbene | Simone de Beauvoir
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Mentre cerco di capire come funziona questa app (sono ben accetti suggerimenti), vi mostro il mio amore sconfinato per Einaudi :)

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Simona
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Fresh from the bookstore! I went to browse and I couldn't resist to the cover. What is wrong if I have three editions of Anna Karenina?

#seasonsreadings2016 #lastbookyoustacked

HiddenGemBooks Not a shame in the world! I have countless editions of Poe's work â¤ï¸ 7y
tricours That's a fabulous cover! 7y
mhillis Beautiful! 7y
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Decayy I saw the left cover of Lady Chatterley's Lover. I was thinking of getting either that one or few mangas. I left the store with neither. 7y
danimgill I have that cover of Persuasion, it's so nice! The quotes they chose for Anna Karenina's are lovely 7y
Joybishoptx There is nothing wrong with three editions of Anna K. And don't let anyone tell you any different! 7y
TheLondonBookworm I'm a sucker for fancy editions ☺☺ 7y
sprainedbrain Nothing at all wrong with that! 7y
Moray_Reads Love the one on the left, very unusual 7y
RealLifeReading Nothing wrong at all! 7y
[DELETED] 3323341091 so pretty! 7y
Simona @Decayy That's what I call strength of will! I don't have it, at least not in the bookstore... 7y
Simona @TheLondonBookworm I'm shameless cover buyer😊 7y
Simona @tricours @mhillis @danimgill @Moray_Reads @fern Yes, cover is very beautiful due to the selected quotations on the cover. 7y
charl08 Beautiful cover! I do this with 7y
Gissy Gorgeous! Anna Karenina deserve to have more than one edition and that one definitely you needed to have it! We are supportive with your cause 😊👠7y
Simona @Gissy Thanks for your support 😉 7y
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