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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.
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Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
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To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it a discussion
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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
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