Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
Simone de BeauvoirThe state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.
Simone de BeauvoirI could see no reason for being sad. Itยดs just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
Simone de BeauvoirIt is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.
Simone de Beauvoir