A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
Simone de BeauvoirIf you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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