That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
Simone de BeauvoirPicasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
Simone de BeauvoirIf you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.
Simone de BeauvoirLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Simone de Beauvoir