Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Experience
  • American
  • Alien

• Fashion breaks my heart.

  

  Kanye West
  • Heart
  • Fashion
  • Breaks

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Criticism
  • Modern

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Relationship
  • Person

• Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Brain

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...

  

  Karl Jaspers

• Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re onIt came rolling down the cheekSay just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Road

• 'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Free
  • Law
  • Competition

• Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

  

  Edward Young
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Ambition

• The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Savage

• Dice il proverbio, ch'a trovar si vannoGli uomini spesso, e i monti fermi stanno.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American
  • War
  • History

• No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Growing
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Prayer
  • Fire
  • No Sense

• I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thought

• For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Learning
  • Books
  • Library

• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Death
  • Road
  • Find

• Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Death
  • Life is
  • I Know