Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing—and a neater one than silence.


The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir (1960)


Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing—and a neater one than silence.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing—and a neater one than silence.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing—and a neater one than silence.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing—and a neater one than silence.