January 29, 1947 ― Again I slept late. But there’s something in the New York air that makes sleep useless; perhaps it’s because your heart beats more quickly here than elsewhere―people with heart conditions sleep less, and many New Yorkers die of heart problems. In any case, I’m enjoying this windfall: the days seem too short.
☛ America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir, tr. by Carol Cosman, Berkeley: University of California Press, [1954]1999, p. 18.