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a169f08
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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533584b
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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life
inifinity
old-age
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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28ef6fa
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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philosophy
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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c920a91
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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
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literature
culture
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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e77307a
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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
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truth
omissions
importance
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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1c1550f
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When she does not find love, she may find poetry. Because she does not act, she observes, she feels, she records; a color, a smile awakens profound echoes within her; her destiny is outside her, scattered in cities already built, on the faces of men already marked by life, she makes contact, she relishes with passion and yet in a manner more detached, more free, than that of a young man. Being poorly integrated in the universe of humanity a..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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a9dd0fd
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her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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02d233e
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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92031f1
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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cf65b24
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
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sisyphus
repetition
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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1d0167c
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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17f0207
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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 absolute truth.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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930c8fd
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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 ..
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feminism
philosophy
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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0ff42dd
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Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)"
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relationships
freedom
love
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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5f2cc52
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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life
delay
conduct-of-life
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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423f59c
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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1e9a6fb
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion"
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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8b753be
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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women
wisdom
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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7c58c58
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My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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4710055
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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771ad26
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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.
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inspirational
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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cbb56dd
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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fathers
daughters
ideals
perception
expectations
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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d15079c
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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marriage
entrapment
wives
matrimony
husbands
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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fd03a7c
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In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convi..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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a49572b
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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, passionat..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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965dfec
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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64945dd
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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.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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6b64257
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On ne nait pas femme: on le devient.
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women
education
gender-realization
birth
upbringing
gender
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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4b17544
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I could see no reason for being sad. It's just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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bdb3e4d
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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b525223
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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ede203a
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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existentialism
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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e182c16
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If they want to flirt or initiate a friendship, they should carefully avoid giving the impression they are taking the initiative; men do not like tomboys, nor bluestockings, nor thinking women; too much audacity, culture, intelligence, or character frightens them. In most novels, as George Eliot observes, it is the dumb, blond heroine who outshines the virile brunette; and in The Mill on the Floss, Maggie tries in vain to reverse the roles..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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221be46
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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99c58d9
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Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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0697866
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but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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aafb604
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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631a8b6
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Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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8a9a0c8
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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4c435ae
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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self
uniqueness
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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6bb5b24
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counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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375ded0
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Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such an aim, one must first unequivocally posit oneself as a freedom. The restrictions that education and custom impose on a woman limit her grasp of the universe...Indeed, for one to become a creator, it is not enough to be cultivated, that is, to make going to shows and meeting people part of one's life; culture must be ..
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transcendence
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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173ca59
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And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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930a02a
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Simone de Beauvoir |