C. Xenia

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“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[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed