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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
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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There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.
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It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
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I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.
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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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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
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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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Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.
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... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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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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it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.
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Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
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A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
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The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.
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