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50 Simone de Beauvoir Quotes & Sayings
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50 Simone de Beauvoir Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 9 January 1908. Died: 14 April 1986 |
Writer
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Philosopher
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Activist
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Feminist
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
One
Born
Becomes
Woman
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
Simone de Beauvoir
One's
Life
Value
Others
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
Simone de Beauvoir
Oppression
Creates
War
Exception
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That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Simone de Beauvoir
Generosity
Feel
Costs
Nothing
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A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Woman
Enjoy
Himself
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Lose
Confidence
Body
Oneself
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Loved
Admired
Necessary
Somebody
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone de Beauvoir
Catch
Husband
Art
Job
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone de Beauvoir
Live
Long enoughVictory
Defeat
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Human being
Woman
Male
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
Simone de Beauvoir
Body
Situation
World
Project
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir
Wish
Human life
Transparent
Freedom
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
Simone de Beauvoir
Capabilities
Clearly
Manifested
Realized
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Change
Life
Future
Act now
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I could see no reason for being sad. It's just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
Simone de Beauvoir
Reason
Sad
Unhappy
Feel
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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
Simone de Beauvoir
Women's
Understanding
Identify
Reason
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
Simone de Beauvoir
Today
Hard time
Living
Death
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
Simone de Beauvoir
Some things
Loved
Great
Given
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A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
Simone de Beauvoir
Day
Write
Taste
Ashes
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
Simone de Beauvoir
Abstain
Politics
Attitude
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
Simone de Beauvoir
People
Think
Empty
Fill
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Self-consciousness
Knowledge
Story
Oneself
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
Simone de Beauvoir
Freedom
Source
Values
Existence
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To paint, to write, to engage in politics—these are not merely ‘sublimations’; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.
Simone de Beauvoir
Paint
Write
Falsify
History
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it
Simone de Beauvoir
Mystery
Mirage
Vanishes
Look
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Attempt
Accept
Task
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it
Simone de Beauvoir
Knowledge
Happiness
Courage
Fight
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
Story
Time
True
Balance
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
Simone de Beauvoir
Ethics
Life
Game
Winning
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Simone de Beauvoir
Justification
Existence
Indefinitely
Future
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it
Simone de Beauvoir
War
Revolution
Sacrifice
Generation
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
Simone de Beauvoir
Child
Aim
Woman
Value
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
Simone de Beauvoir
World
Nothing
Exile
Hope
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Will
Moral
Free
Decision
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love
Simone de Beauvoir
Tiring
Hate
Someone
Love
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
Imagine
Reasons
Living
Find
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Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
Simone de Beauvoir
Weakness
Aims
Man
Laws
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Simone de Beauvoir
Life
Occupied
Living
Dying
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
Simone de Beauvoir
Realized
Talking
Time
Short
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But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
Simone de Beauvoir
Women
Congress
Feminists
Demonstration
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All success cloaks a surrender
Simone de Beauvoir
Success
Cloaks
Surrender
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
Simone de Beauvoir
Youth
Vigor
Fire
Love
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility
Simone de Beauvoir
Oppression
Defend
Itself
Utility
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…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation
Simone de Beauvoir
Day
Training
Think
Truth
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
Simone de Beauvoir
Deny
Existence
Time
Love
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
Simone de Beauvoir
Intelligent
Charge
Loves
Myself
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
Simone de Beauvoir
Infinity
Adventure
Life
End
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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
Simone de Beauvoir
Odd
Things
Omit
Important
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoir
Myself
Comfort
Love
Truth
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living
Simone de Beauvoir
Knowledge
Conditions
Lives
Strength
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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes & Sayings