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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Simone de Beauvoir quotes

French Writer January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986

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There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me. Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the..."
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion Simone de Beauvoir
There was once a man who lost his shadow. I forget what happened to him, but it was dreadful. As for me, I've lost my own image. I did not look at it often; but it was there, in the background, just as Maurice had drawn it for me. A straightforward, genuine, "authentic" woman, with out mean-mindedness, uncompromising, but at the same time understanding, indulgent, sensitive, deeply feeling, intensely aware of things and of people, passionately devoted to those she loved and creating... Simone de Beauvoir
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her 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 and not of mortal danger. Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now,..."
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfis? You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. Simone de Beauvoir
She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else. Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather..."
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal. Simone de Beauvoir
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be... Simone de Beauvoir
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
My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together. Simone de Beauvoir
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything. Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have..."
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties..."
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir

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