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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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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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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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
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Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
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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.
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The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
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Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.
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I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.
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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.
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A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.
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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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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
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Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
Simone de Beauvoir
The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.
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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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