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Simone de Beauvoir quote: In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: 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.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: I wish that every human life may be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: 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.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir portrait and quote: I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir portrait and quote: Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir portrait and quote: A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in 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 quote: On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in 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 quote: The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Simone de Beauvoir portrait and quote: 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 quote: Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

John Steinbeck quote: I guess there are never enough books.

John Steinbeck quote: Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

John Steinbeck quote: When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

John Steinbeck quote: All great and precious things are lonely.

John Steinbeck portrait and quote: I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found,

John Steinbeck quote: Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck quote: And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

John Steinbeck quote: All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck portrait and quote: To be alive at all is to have scars.

John Steinbeck portrait and quote: There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty.

John Steinbeck quote: It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck quote: And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck quote: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Heinrich Heine portrait and quote: All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

Heinrich Heine quote: Von allen Welten, die der Mensch erschaffen hat, ist die der Bücher die Gewaltigste.

Heinrich Heine quote: Von allen Welten, die der Mensch erschaffen hat, ist die der Bücher die Gewaltigste.