Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.
Simone de BeauvoirIt is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone de BeauvoirThe time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.
Simone de BeauvoirThis has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de Beauvoir