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From Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
- 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…
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
- 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…
- The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can…
- There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him…
- It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
- From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
- It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral…
- 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…
- That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what…
- The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -- each asking…
- Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own…
- The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
- When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
- A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object…
- 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…
- Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades,…
- A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others…
- The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and…
- The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;…
- 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…
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