Inseparable

by Simone de Beauvoir

You don’t believe what you believe on purpose: could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?

Andrée had found my letter ridiculous, which hurt me; but more importantly, she had no idea how much I needed to share everything with her. That was what saddened me the most: I had just realized that she had absolutely no idea of my feelings for her.

“The life that adults lead seems so monotonous to me; all their days are the same, they stop learning things .