"Retirement may be looked upon either as a……" — Simone de Beauvoir
"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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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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I was struck all on a heap.
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for…
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