A Transatlantic Love Affair Quotes

“It has never been very easy for me to live, though I am always very happy—maybe because I want so much to be happy. I like so much to live and I hate the idea of dying one day. And then 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, and 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, A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

“C'est exactement ça qu'est la littérature après tout : d'habiles mensonges qui secrètement disent la vérité.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren