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Habit has a kind of poetry.
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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Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. 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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
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Live with no time-out.
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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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I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.
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The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
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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.
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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
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It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.
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As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.
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