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Present Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a…
- Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
- We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
- One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
- He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each…
- 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…
- There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon