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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
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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Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word useful an absolute meaning nothing is useful if it is not useful to man nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
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I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
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As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
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The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
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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.
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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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all success cloaks a surrender
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The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
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Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
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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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I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.
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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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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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