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  • #1
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #2
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #3
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  • #4
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  • #5
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Book of Positive Quotations

  • #6
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    Albert Camus

  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    Albert Camus

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    Albert Camus

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    Albert Camus

  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
    Albert Camus, The First Man

  • #14
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
    Jean Paul Sartre

  • #15
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #16
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

  • #17
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #18
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #19
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Words are loaded pistols.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #20
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #21
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #22
    Donna Tartt
    “I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
    Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

  • #23
    Donna Tartt
    “It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #24
    Donna Tartt
    “There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #25
    Donna Tartt
    “Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
    Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

  • #26
    Donna Tartt
    “But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
    Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #27
    Donna Tartt
    “A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
    Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

  • #28
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #29
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #30
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground



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