Nuria Itzel

“But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

“ephemeral and useless, flowers exemplify the gratuitousness of occasions that mean expenses and luxury; blooming in vases, doomed to a rapid death, flowers are ceremonial bonfires, incense and myrrh, libation, sacrifice.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

“But I know my only defense is to answer, “I think it because it is true,” thereby eliminating my subjectivity;”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter