Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics… — 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
Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. — 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
The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.” — 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
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel.… — 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
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
“All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of… — 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
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
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
“The thing I understood least of all was that knowledge led to despair and damnation. Our spiritual mentor had not said that… — 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
“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
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
