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Simone De Beauvoir Inspirational Quotes (213)

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If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
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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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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
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Buying is profound pleasure.
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In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
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A man is in the right in being a man it is the woman who is in the wrong.
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The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.
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One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, I will always be here.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
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The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
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I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.
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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.
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The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.
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A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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