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From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Live with no time-out.
— Simone De Beauvoir
They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off.
— Simone De Beauvoir
To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
— Simone De Beauvoir
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
— Simone De Beauvoir
But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.
— Simone De Beauvoir
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
— Juliette Binoche
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ...
— Simone De Beauvoir
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
— Simone De Beauvoir
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours ...
— Simone De Beauvoir
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Charity is all very nice,but people want to get something out of it.That's the principle of charity affairs.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I was very fond of Lagneau's phrase: I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
— Simone De Beauvoir
In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Immortality is a terrible curse.
— Simone De Beauvoir
It is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
— Simone De Beauvoir
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it a discussion
— Simone De Beauvoir
I tried to love you less.I couldn't.
— Simone De Beauvoir
When Simone de Beauvoir said, "One is not born a woman - one becomes one," she didn't know the half of it. In
— Caitlin Moran
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone De Beauvoir
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself
— Simone De Beauvoir
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
— Simone De Beauvoir
My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.
— Simone De Beauvoir
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
— Simone De Beauvoir
But the answer is obvious: it is easy to believe one is sovereign when alone, to believe oneself strong when carefully refusing to bear any burden.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
— Simone De Beauvoir
One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.
— Simone De Beauvoir
all success cloaks a surrender
— Simone De Beauvoir
If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.
— Simone De Beauvoir
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
— Simone De Beauvoir
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.
— Simone De Beauvoir
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Yet a revolution cannot begin until the diffuse, private indignation of individuals coalesces into a common cause. Beauvoir not only marshaled
— Simone De Beauvoir
The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole ...
— Simone De Beauvoir
The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
— Simone De Beauvoir
Buying is a profound pleasure.
— Simone De Beauvoir
A man attaches himself to woman not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. — Simone De Beauvoir
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
— Simone De Beauvoir
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.
— Simone De Beauvoir
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
— Simone De Beauvoir
To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say 'I am sacrificing myself' without feeling bitterness.
— Simone De Beauvoir
To adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
— Simone De Beauvoir
She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.
— Simone De Beauvoir
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
— Simone De Beauvoir
It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one stands there, the only witness to a vanished world.
— Simone De Beauvoir
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
— Simone De Beauvoir
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
— Simone De Beauvoir
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Habit has a kind of poetry.
— Simone De Beauvoir
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
— Simone De Beauvoir
As we talked in the half-darkness I assuaged an old unhappiness.
— Simone De Beauvoir
It is impossible to do anything for anyone.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
— Simone De Beauvoir
There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
— Simone De Beauvoir
One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
— Simone De Beauvoir
A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
— Simone De Beauvoir
