“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
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
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
“My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in… — 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
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not… — 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
My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...” — 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
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to… — 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
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
I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing. — 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
“The comradeship that welded our lives together made a superfluous mockery of any other bond we might have forged for ourselves.What, for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely… — 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
