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No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
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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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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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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
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To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized
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The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
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Old age is life's parody.
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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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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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You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.
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Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.
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Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
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Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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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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Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.
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There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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