# Quote — Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal

> Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

- Author: [Simone de Beauvoir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir.md)
- Book: [All Men Are Mortal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/insects-were-scurrying

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> That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

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> One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

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> If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

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