# Quote — Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal

> She was beautiful, with a beauty so severe and so solitary that at first it was startling. "Ah! If only there were two of me," she thought, "one doing the talking and one listening, one living and one watching, how I would love myself. I'd envy no one."

- 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)
- Page: 5
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir#All_Men_are_Mortal_(1946)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/she-was-beautiful

## More from this book

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/thats-what-i-consider.md)

> 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."

p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/one-day-ill.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/if-you-live.md)