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The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
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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Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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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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Buying is profound pleasure.
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Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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A man is in the right in being a man it is the woman who is in the wrong.
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It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
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Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
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Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
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If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.
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Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
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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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There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.
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