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. Simone Beauvoir
 Beauty

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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

 Arrogance
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

Simone Beauvoir

 
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.

Simone Beauvoir

 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.

Simone Beauvoir

 French Writer
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.

Simone Beauvoir

 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.

Simone Beauvoir

 Stupidity
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.

Simone Beauvoir

 Existence
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 . . .

Simone Beauvoir

 
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