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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

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it. — Simone De Beauvoir