The 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 BeauvoirIt was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
Simone de BeauvoirWhen someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
Simone de BeauvoirAmericans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.
Simone de BeauvoirI am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfishโฆ You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
Simone de Beauvoir