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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength—each asking ...
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a...
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
By Simone de Beauvoir
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
By Simone de Beauvoir
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
By Simone de Beauvoir
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
By Simone de Beauvoir
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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