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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it a discussion
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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The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.
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A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.
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The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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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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From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
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from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war.
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.
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You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
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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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But I must admit I didn´t like that idea do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.
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The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
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For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
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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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I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, this domain is purely for women. I don't believe that at all.
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