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Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.
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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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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other but for the same reason each is against the others.
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If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
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The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
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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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Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
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You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.
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There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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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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