To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
Simone de BeauvoirWe belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!
Simone de BeauvoirWhatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
Simone de BeauvoirLove and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.
Simone de Beauvoir