Simone de Beauvoir

We always come...

We always come...

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with...

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I tore myself...

I tore myself...

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded...

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The writer of...

The writer of...

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and...

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In the face...

In the face...

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

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Live with no...

Live with no...

Live with no time out.

Source: All Said and Done, 1974.
-- Simone de Beauvoir,...

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Few books are...

Few books are...

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to...

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In order for...

In order for...

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,...

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A man would...

A man would...

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human...

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One is not...

One is not...

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Source: The Second Sex, Knopf...

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If you live...

If you live...

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Source:...

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It's frightening to...

It's frightening to...

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the...

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The fact that...

The fact that...

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human...

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Change your life...

Change your life...

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Source:...

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One is not...

One is not...

One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius.

Source: The Second Sex,...

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Patience is one...

Patience is one...

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after...

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The day knowledge...

The day knowledge...

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social...

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Since it is...

Since it is...

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from...

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This has always...

This has always...

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open...

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Defending the truth...

Defending the truth...

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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