Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.
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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.
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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.
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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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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.
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We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.
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Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
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I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.
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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
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I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
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If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.
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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
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Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.
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The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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Tuesday nights is Men's League and Thursday nights is Ladies' League. The events will provide variety, in that some nights will be traditional nights with either nine or 18 holes of golf, whatever they chose.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.
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Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
