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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — 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
“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
“There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the… — 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
“Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not… — 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
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
Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Love in the modern sense does not exist in antiquity except outside of official society,” notes Engels: at the very point where… — 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
“Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. — 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
