The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“(…) 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
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“One of the most remarkable features to be noted as we survey the scale of animal life is that as we go… — 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… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and constructive… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“When she does not find love, she may find poetry. Because she does not act, she observes, she feels, she records; a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has… — 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… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion” — 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
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
“Scents, patterns of light and shade, winds and hurricanes — all pulsed inwardly through my own sinews and veins: so much so,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The people of former times [...] they're dead that's the only thing they have over the living but in their own day… — 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
![“The people of former times [...] they're dead that's the only thing they have over the living but in their own day they were just as sickening. Picturesqueness: I don't fall for that not for one minute. Stinking filthy dirty washing cabbage-stalks what a pretentious fool you have to be to go into…” quote by Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/80b/simone-de-beauvoir-407_life_the-people-of-former-times-they-re-dead_368300.jpg)
