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We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with...
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded...
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and...
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Live with no time out.
Source: All Said and Done, 1974.
-- Simone de Beauvoir,...
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to...
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,...
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human...
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Source: The Second Sex, Knopf...
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Source:...
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the...
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human...
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Source:...
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after...
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social...
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from...
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has...
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open...
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in...
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