Simone de Beauvoir — "I am a woman who writes, and I am a woman who lives."

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth—and truth rewarded me."

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end."

"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless."

"The great advantage of living in a pigsty is that the standards are so low, nothing can really disappoint you."

"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our existence that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting."