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Very Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
- It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
- From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
- 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…
- Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it…
- In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it…
- I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
- I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that…
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