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Thing Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
- There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into…
- 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…
- Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it;…
- 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 body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
- What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
- 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…
- To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to…
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