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Simone De Beauvoir Quotes
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The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
It is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
It is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
... to adapt one’s outlook to another person’s salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
I’m not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I’m against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
As long as the family and the myth of the family... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
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 Quotes)
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn’t advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Women’s mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one’s liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into? (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it’s exigencies (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)
The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power (Simone De Beauvoir Quotes)