In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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 BeauvoirTo be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
Simone de Beauvoir