Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
Simone de BeauvoirPicasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
Simone de BeauvoirWeakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
Simone de Beauvoir