We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience. — 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
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. — 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
