Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
Simone de BeauvoirI had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.
Simone de BeauvoirYou can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.
Simone de BeauvoirYouth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
Simone de Beauvoir