“(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Thus we can regard the phenomenon of reproduction as founded in the very nature of being. But we must stop there. The… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — 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
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
“All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted… — 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
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
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and… — 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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