Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir
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My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
Samuel Alexander
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"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
Alfred Korzybski
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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
Alan Rickman
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.
August Krogh
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If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
A. S. Byatt
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When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied with because you're so used to gearing yourself up to that eight o'clock curtain, but to find any kind of real, absorbing alternative is impossible. Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part.
Rex Harrison
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.
Caroline Myss
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir
