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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We need each other, We believe in one another, And I know we're gonna uncover, What's sleeping in our soul...
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
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The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
Confucius
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Live fast, have fun, be a bit mischievous.
Louis Tomlinson
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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