When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
Simone de BeauvoirThe day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.
Simone de BeauvoirI am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
Simone de BeauvoirWe always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
Simone de Beauvoir