Simone de Beauvoir on life
Simone de Beauvoir99 quotes“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir I 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.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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