Simone de Beauvoir Quote

From one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.


America Day by Day (1948)


From one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within...

From one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within...

From one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within...

From one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within...