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The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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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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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
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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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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it a discussion
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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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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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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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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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No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
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The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.
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