Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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One night I summoned God, if He really existed, to show Himself to me. He didn't, and I never addressed another word to — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone t — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
I was too much of an extremist to be able to live under the eye of God and at the same time say both yes and no to life — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism c — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the fe — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced. — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space a — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million. — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Suddenly I was struck motionless: I was living through the first chapter of a novel in which I was the heroine; she was — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
I had to call the past to life, and illuminate every corner of the five continents, descend to the centre of the earth a — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Why shouldn't a mystical theology be possible? 'I want to touch God or become God,' I declared in my journal. All throug — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wi — Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter