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Fact Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
- All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will…
- The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of…
- The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists…
- The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
- Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
- Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness…
- Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed…
- 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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