Sublime

She was good in the fullest and narrowest sense of the word as it is applied to female children. And she had blossomed into exactly the sort of adult her childhood predicted. Ah well.

Le corps féminin vieillissant agit comme « un rappel du fait que les femmes ont un “soi” qui n’existe pas que pour les autres

In a reversal of Descartes’ ‘I think, therefore I am,’ Sartre argues, in effect, ‘I am nothing, therefore I am free.’

For Sartre, this gives the mind an immense freedom. If we are nothing but what we think about, then no predefined ‘inner nature’ can hold us back.

je ne pouvais plus rien lui refuser. – J’ai subi le même sort… – Vous auriez dû voir avec quelle audace elle est venue à ma table, dans ce café. – Je connais bien cette démarche, dit Nietzsche. Sa démarche d’impératrice romaine. Elle méprise tous les obstacles, comme si rien ne pouvait l’arrêter sur son chemin. – Et quelle assurance sans faille !

Simone de Beauvoir disse que nenhum homem é realmente livre para amar uma mulher gorda.

that Woman connotes a process more than a position.

He opened his 1945 essay ‘Metaphysics and the Novel’ with a dialogue quoted from L’invitée, in which the (Sartre-like) character Pierre tells the (Beauvoir-like) protagonist Françoise that he is amazed at the way a metaphysical situation can touch her in a ‘concrete’ way: ‘But the situation is concrete,’ replies Françoise, ‘the whole meaning of my