# Quote — Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal

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

- 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)
- Original (fr): [C]'est la vraie générosité ; vous donnez tout et rien ne semble jamais vous coûter.
- 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/thats-what-i-consider

## More from this book

> 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)

> Even the children of Carmona were divided into two camps, and below the ramparts, among the brushwood and rocks, we battled with stones shouting "Long live the duke!" and others, "Down with the tyrant!" We fought viciously, but I was never satisfied with this game — the fallen enemy rose again, the dead came back to life. The day after a battle, victors and vanquished both found themselves unharmed.

p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/even-the-children.md)