However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The… — 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
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. — 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
