Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir
I bumped today into the www.brainpickings.org website which seems very interesting. Having said that, let me just clarify that I haven’t really explored it yet, I have just glanced over some articles, but they were all interesting. Good start for a new fav website!
Anyway, it had two articles about Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Sartre and Beauvoir had an open life long relationship that was intimate yet at times had space for other lovers to home in….
Here are links to reviews by Maria Popova on two books that give insight into these literary lovers’ way of love; one being a collection of his love letters to her and the other a collection of women’s breakup letters, including some of Beauvoir’s to her various lovers.
I had to share two of their quotes, one from his letters to her and the other from a breakup letter written by her to one of her other lovers, found on the above mentioned books (via links)….
“I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself.”
Jean Paul Sartre (in a letter to Simone de Beauvoir)
“I can still feel warm and happy and harshly grateful when I look at you inside me”.
Simone de Beauvoir (in a breakup letter to Nelson Algren)
escape from a bankrupt state 