I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“[T]here is no way to measure the happiness of others, and it is always easy to call a situation that one would… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“It has never been very easy for me to live, though I am always very happy—maybe because I want so much to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In our opinion, there is no public good other than one that assures the citizens' private good; we judge institutions from the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest.… — 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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