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Been Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
- It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in…
- Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not…
- Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is…
- Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
- My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the…
- Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
- As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as…
- The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It…
- But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had…
- I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it…
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