Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.
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There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.
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I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.
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I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
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It is impossible to do anything for anyone.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
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She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.
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Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion.
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The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
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It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
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It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.