Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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• Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
• One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
• To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
• I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
• Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to…
• No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
• The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human…
• Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
• In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
• All oppression creates a state of war.
• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell…
• Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
• What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
• If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
• I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
• When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
• Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
• Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse…

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