"The body is not a thing, it is……" — Simone de Beauvoir

"The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project"

— Simone de Beauvoir

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206 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir has 206 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship,…
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the…
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or…
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
All oppression creates a state of war.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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