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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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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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.
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Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
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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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--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.
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If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.
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At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
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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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You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.
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Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
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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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The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
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Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
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Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
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