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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
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You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.
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I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
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Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word useful an absolute meaning nothing is useful if it is not useful to man nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
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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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It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age' the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.
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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.
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Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
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The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
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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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Live with no time-out.
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Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.
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It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.
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