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Old age is life's parody.
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 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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.
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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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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the division of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
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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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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.
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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
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A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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