Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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

Life, Change, Future

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

Life, Love, Friendship

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

Art, Husband, Job

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Freedom, Human

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

Truth, Love, Through

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

Woman, Human, Said

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

Women, Toward, Arrogant

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, Woman, Feeling

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir

Woman, Born, Becomes

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, Same, Serious

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 de Beauvoir

Power, May, Him

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

Sex, Woman, Words

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

Stupid, Impossible, Face

All oppression creates a state of war.
Simone de Beauvoir

War, State, Oppression

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

Life, Living, Both

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Simone de Beauvoir

Age, Child, Adult

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

Work, Men, Truth

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
Simone de Beauvoir

Accept, Infinity, Incapable

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, Sense, Guilt

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

Live, Long, Enough

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Simone de Beauvoir

Art, Evil, Attempt

Buying is a profound pleasure.
Simone de Beauvoir

Pleasure, Profound, Buying

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

Society, Far, Individual

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

Woman, Rather, Born

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, Sex, Humanity

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: January 9, 1908

Died: April 14, 1986

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