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The Prime of Life

From “The Prime of Life” by Simone De Beauvoir
“By releasing the pressure of reality upon our lives, fantasy convinced us that life itself had no hold upon us.” (61)
Word count: 276
I found this quote to be very inspiring when I was reading because I feel not only did it sum up a lot of the meaning behind her writing but also resonated with me. Throughout a lot of this chapter, I learned that Simone felt like she had no freedom when she was younger which is why she moved in with her grandmother who treated her like the other people that were living with her, and she could go about what she wanted to do. When she met Sartre, they both realized their passion for living life without materialistic things and live their fantasies through their writings. They were both very content with their lives and the things they didn’t have because they had freedom, something they felt they lacked most of their lives. They were content with the stories that they were telling and the knowledge they were gaining they had no desire to search for other things in life. I think that this is inspiring that they didn’t have many things, but they had each other and their writing. It makes me look at life from a different perspective when there are material things that I might really want, but there are other things in my life that other people don’t have. After getting rid of everything that she was being held back from by her parents, Simone was able to live out her fantasies with someone who had the same ideologies as her. 



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