I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A foreign country can best be understood through its literature. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within… — 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
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as… — 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
