October 2011
149 posts
“Lying on dead leaves, my eyes dazed by the passionate colours of the vineyards, I kept repeating those words: degree, doctorate. And all barriers, all prison walls were being broken down. I was moving forwards, under an open sky, across the reality of life. The future was no longer just an impossible dream: I was touching it now. There would be four or five years of study, and then a whole way of life which I would build up with my own hands. My life would be a beautiful story come true, a story I would make up as I went along.”
—Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (via science-of-sleep)
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
—Voltaire (via musingsinfemininity)
“Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered”
—Giorgio Armani (via musingsinfemininity)
