Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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Many of us who have cars have felt some form of extreme anger at other drivers because we feel they have put us in harm's way. We might even envision ramming their cars or cutting them off in return, but do we actually do it? No, because the overwhelming majority of us never want to take another human life.
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If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
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I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.
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There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
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I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.
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I've just always believed you can get anything you want in this life - anything you want.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.
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Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
