When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."
Simone de BeauvoirI never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.
Simone de BeauvoirTo protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.
Simone de BeauvoirBut I must admit I didnยดt like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: letยดs turn on the gas at once. And you donยดt turn it on.
Simone de Beauvoir