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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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Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
Simone de Beauvoir
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
Simone de Beauvoir
But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
Simone de Beauvoir
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
Simone de Beauvoir
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
Simone de Beauvoir
there is a poetry in making preserves the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.
Simone de Beauvoir
They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good.
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