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Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986

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 on life and death

The Coming of Age (1970), Pt. 2, Ch. 2: Time, activity, history, p. 412

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