Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIREthics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRToday, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSelf-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRShe was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBe loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHistory took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRChange your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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