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Absolute Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- 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…
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a…
- There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There…
- …but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth:…
- I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
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