Eden

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir