“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others (1946)

About Simone de Beauvoir

1908 – 1986

French existentialist philosopher and author of "The Second Sex".

“There is an element of failure in all success.”

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”

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

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

“Imagine what life would be like without imagination!”

“These are times in which a genius would wish to live.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”