Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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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Death Life Live
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage

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