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Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
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Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
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Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.
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Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
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Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.
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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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Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.
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Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
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It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.
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Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Habit has a kind of poetry.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
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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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To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.
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The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
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Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
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