Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours... — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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