Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other. — Simone de Beauvoir
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man. — Simone de Beauvoir
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. — Simone de Beauvoir
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and — Simone de Beauvoir