Emily Morgan’s Reviews > Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27 > Status Update

“Lagneau’s expression is beautiful, “I have no support but my absolute despair.”…On this despair I will build my joy; I will overcome the inexplicable. Courageously every day, rebuilding everything…each time, the building is more solid…”

Beauvoir after writing 10 pages analysing the words and actions of her crush: “But I don’t know; I am not analysing…”

“I wanted to cry out, ‘I look like a young girl who does one thing or another, but within me I carry a god.’”

On the first page of her 1926 diary, this quote from Mauriac:

Am I loved? Do I love?
Did I love? I don’t know.
I know that I am never weary
Of feeling tenderness for myself.