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We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

Simone de Beauvoir
Past, Action, Regard
Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.95, Open Road Media

Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.

Simone de Beauvoir
Book, Past, Doubt
Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of Circumstance: Hard times”

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.

Simone de Beauvoir
Change, Past, Tears
Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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.

Simone de Beauvoir
Past, Alcohol, United States

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