44 Quotations by Simone de Beauvoir
- 1. A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
- 2. All oppression creates a state of war.
- 3. Buying is a profound pleasure.
- 4. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
- 5. Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, bu ...
- 6. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rew ...
- 7. If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder.You need ...
- 8. If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
- 9. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov ...
- 10. In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppresse ...
- 11. In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
- 12. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live ...
- 13. It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superi ...
- 14. It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, wher ...
- 15. It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You ...
- 16. It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
- 17. Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
- 18. Live with no time out.
- 19. Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
- 20. One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
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