"I tore myself away from the safe comfort……" — Simone de Beauvoir
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
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206 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir has 206 quotes on this site.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship,…
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the…
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or…
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
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More Certainties Quotes
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin…
— Salman Rushdie
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
— Charles William Eliot
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I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to…
— Bridget Riley
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your…
— Unknown Author
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
— James Dobson
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted…
— Fernando Pessoa
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When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom,…
— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.
— Bethenny Frankel
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