“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
Source: The Mandarins
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Simone de Beauvoir 152
French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, po… 1908–1986Related quotes

“I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.”
Paraphrased variant: I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: No man, standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave, has any right to prophesy a future filled with pain and tears. It may be that death gives all there is of worth to life. If those we press and strain against our hearts could never die, perhaps that love would wither from the earth. Maybe this common fate treads from out the paths between our hearts the weeds of selfishness and hate, and I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.

Prologue p. 10
The Sabbath (1951)

Source: Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters

p, 125
Geometrical Lectures (1735)