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One Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
- 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.
- 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.
- Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that…
- 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…
- There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
- No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely…
- Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched,…
- It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it…
- One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.
- To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
- Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in…
- Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be…
- Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on…
- 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…
- Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
- Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.
- The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
- The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
- One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
- --There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too.…
- My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour…
- Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so…
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