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Simone de Beauvoir (Writer)

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
— Simone de Beauvoir life
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
— Simone de Beauvoir life
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 de Beauvoir love
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
— Simone de Beauvoir man
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
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
— Simone de Beauvoir care
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
— Simone de Beauvoir fact
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir war
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 de Beauvoir fear
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 de Beauvoir man
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 de Beauvoir life
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir love
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
— Simone de Beauvoir live
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 de Beauvoir truth
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 de Beauvoir love
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 de Beauvoir life
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 de Beauvoir words
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.
— Simone de Beauvoir truth
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
— Simone de Beauvoir god
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
— Simone de Beauvoir art
All oppression creates a state of war.
— Simone de Beauvoir war
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 de Beauvoir life
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
— Simone de Beauvoir possible
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 living
Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
— Simone De Beauvoir life
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
— Simone de Beauvoir
…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 truth

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