I was very fond of Lagneauโs phrase: โI have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
Simone de BeauvoirA man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.
Simone de BeauvoirSociety cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
Simone de Beauvoir