And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
Simone de BeauvoirI think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.
Simone de BeauvoirAll the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesnยดt come fast enough. Instead of being open, youยดre closed up tight. Thatยดs the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.
Simone de Beauvoir