Simone de Beauvoir; the French feminist existentialist

My Namesake & Quotes by Her:

“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.” 

“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project” 

“To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody” 

“To protest in the name of morality against ‘excesses’ or ‘abuses’ is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no ‘abuses’ or ‘excesses’ here, simpily an all-pervasive system.”

Summer Reading List consists of the following:

Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Dodgson’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking- Glass, and What Alice Found TherePoems to Read, Bret Ellis’ American Psycho, Jack Kerouac’s Book of Haikus, Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian, Hunter Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, Simone de Beauvoir’s She Came to Stay, The study of Existential Nihilism. 

185 words

I am rarely, effectively upset. I never stay upset. I never like writing on here. But I do talk endlessly privately. When facing selection, I know my answer by immediate instinct. I have no hesitation in telling someone I love them, I don’t lie well. It’s when I’m infatuated, I hesitate. My mind feels like white light, constantly. I have no fluid thought process, everything floats [around my head]. I love my family, they give me the opportunity to love them. I have legendary ancestors. I compare[d] eating meat to chewing on my own forearm. I regret any form of abuse immediately, that said I am not violent. I am extremely apprehensive about taking medicine. 

Under today’s circumstances, my head spun for hours and my hands shook in the morning and I didn’t want to be bothered with all the notices coming from my phone. A result of studying 13 consecutive hours and being ‘worked up’. I disturbed myself relentlessly on what the meaning of life was. Por último…¿Por qué la vida necesita un significado? Entonces, yo era buena.

"The hippies, who had never really believed they were the wave of the future anyway, saw the election results as brutal confirmation of the futility of fighting the establishment on its own terms. There had to be a whole new scene, they said, and the only way to do it was to make the big move — either figuratively or literally — from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury, from pragmatism to mysticism, from politics to dope… The thrust is no longer for “change” or “progress” or “revolution,” but merely to escape, to live on the far perimeter of a world that might have been."

“The Hashbury is the Capital of the Hippies” (May 1967); republished in Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979), pp 392-394
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