Simone de Beauvoir

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].