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The Blood of Others The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
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“I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“It's easy to pay with the blood of others.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“I cannot withdraw into myself. I exist, outside myself and everywhere in the world. There is not an inch of my path which does not encroach on the path of another: there is no way of being that can prevent me from overflowing myself at every moment. This life that I weave with my own substance, it offers other men a thousand unknown faces, it crosses impetuously their fate.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“Before me lies a gaping void. And the anguish comes into its own, alone in the void, beyond the vanished things. I am alone. I am that anguish which exists alone, in spite of me; I am merged with that blind existence. In spite of me and yet issuing only from myself. Refuse to exist: I exist. Decide to exist: I exist. Refuse, decide. I exist. There will be dawn.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“Ik koos het bestaan niet, maar ik besta. Een ongerijmdheid die verantwoordelijk voor zichzelf is, dat ben ik.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“We only exist if we act.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“E pesando na terra todo o meu peso imóvel. Tu morres. Outros agonizam lentamente, corpos cheios de golpes, a pele colada aos ossos.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“Eu a olhava acabrunhado. Ela se entregara totalmente a mim. Para que essa dádiva exclusiva não fosse absurda, deveria haver em mim um vazio que ela pudesse preencher. Eu sentia que minhas carícias tinham para ela um cunho de solenidade: estava em minhas mãos transformar em verdade ou ilusão esse valor que ela lhes atribuía. Ao apertar nos braços outra mulher, não era apenas um desprazer passageiro que eu lhe infligia: punha em xeque as afirmações mais apaixonadas de sua carne, de seu coração.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
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“That’s what’s so wonderful about you, you’re so self-sufficient that I feel that you’ve created your own self.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“Não há salvação. Nem mesmo a embriagez do desespero e a resolução cega, porque tu estás aí, nessa cama, na luz selvagem da tua morte.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others
“Ter a porta fechada, os lábios fechados: mas o meu silêncio proclama ordens."tu não dizes nada, e eu vou" ou "não dizes nada, e eu não vou". Toda a minha presença é palavra. Avança então, avança no lodo da noite. Decide. Eu decidi a tua morte e não estamos pagos. Mais ainda. Queria pedir misericórdia: não há misericórdia.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others