Simone de Beauvoir

"Pleasure in a woman is a duty, not a sin."

"Time goes by fast, and I only have time to live my life."

"When you say Yes to something, you say No to something else."

"The game of love is never called off on account of darkness."

"A man's love is a man's life apart."

"To write is to forge in the smithy of one's soul the uncreated conscience of my race."

"There is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is aging."

"I am not afraid of being lonely."

"What the world needs is to feel. It is dying of anesthesia."

"The most concrete of activities is philosophical activity."

"One does not discover the new by crushing the old."

"I have been through too much to worry about appearance."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

"All oppression creates a state of war."

"What a curious mixture of Englishness one has."

"The promise of socialism is that it will overcome alienation."

"One only has a right to consume what one produces."

"The worst crime is faking it."

"I think that all of us grow up thinking that there is only one truth."

"The concept of progress acts as a sort of sedative to the modern mind."

"I wish to be remembered as an existentialist."

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"The question of knowing whether one is happy means nothing."

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there."

"When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others."

"Do not forget to live."

"I am not afraid to die."

"One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."