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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility

Simone Beauvoir

As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I was fifty-three I felt at a staggering distance from forty-three - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I was fifty-three I felt at a staggering distance from forty-three

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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day

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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

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French Writer Novelty

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. - Simone 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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

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Change French Writer

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them

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Idols

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself -- on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life . . . - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself -- on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life . . .

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

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French Writer Magic

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority

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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

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Experience French Writer

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

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Courage French Writer

One is not born a woman, one becomes one. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

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French Writer Men And Women

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion

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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 Beauvoir Quotes

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying

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Life

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them

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Love

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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French Writer Women

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 Beauvoir Quotes

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

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Man

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat

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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

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French Writer Society

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

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French Writer Genius

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

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French Writer Inferiority

All oppression creates a state of war. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

All oppression creates a state of war.

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French Writer Oppression

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth

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Men

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born

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Gifts

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do.

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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. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

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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Age And Aging French Writer

Art is an attempt to integrate evil - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Art is an attempt to integrate evil

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Evil

Buying is a profound pleasure. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Buying is a profound pleasure.

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French Writer Pleasure

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

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Art French Writer

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

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That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

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Class

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

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Books And Reading

It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

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The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses

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To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.

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The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

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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 Beauvoir Quotes

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

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French Writer Woman

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

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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 Beauvoir Quotes

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.

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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck. - Simone Beauvoir Quotes

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

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