Gema

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“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

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin