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18f45fb
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Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.
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women-s-rights
inspirational
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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2ed284a
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I could not help but comment to my distinguished audience that every question asked about Sartre concerned his work, while all those asked about Beauvoir concerned her personal life.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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24bc1d3
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The category of Other is as original as consciousness itself. The duality between Self and Other can be found in the most primitive societies, in the most ancient mythologies; the division did not always fall into the category of the division of the sexes (...) No group ever defines itself as One without immediately setting up the Other opposite itself. It only takes three travelers brought together by chance in the same train compartment f..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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470741f
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If I want to define myself, I first have to say, "I am a woman"; all other assertions will arise from this basic truth. A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious." --
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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f1008b0
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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past
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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0b51a60
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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9a91f8e
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The truth is that just as - biologically - males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of the species, so man and wife together undergo the oppression of an institution they did not create. If it is asserted that oppress , the husband is indignant; he feels that is the one who is oppressed - and he is; but the fact is that it is the masculine code, it is the society developed by the males and in their interest, ..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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d8ac446
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Je sais qu'on ne peut jamais se connaitre, mais seulement se raconter.
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self-knowledge
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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8956077
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On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or ..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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9d21834
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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. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present ... Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.
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housework
sisyphus
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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821de09
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We will not let ourselves be intimidated by the number and violence of attacks against women; nor be fooled by the self-serving praise showered on the "real woman"; nor be won over by men's enthusiasm for her destiny, a destiny they would not for the world want to share."
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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4167536
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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.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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06467cf
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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philosophy
simone-de-beauvoir
the-second-sex
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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ec0e04c
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Les livres que j'aimais devinrent une Bible ou je puisais des conseils et des secours.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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be7d725
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Masculine desire is as much an offence as it is a compliment; in so far as she feels herself responsible for her charm, or feels she is exerting it of her own accord, she is much pleased with her conquests, but to the extent that her face, her figure, her flesh are facts she must bear with, she wants to hide them from this independent stranger who lusts after them.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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8c4e0c7
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Enforced maternity brings into the world wretched infants, whom their parents will be unable to support and who will become the victims of public care or 'child martyrs'. It must be pointed out that our society, so concerned to defend the rights of the embryo, shows no interest in the children once they are born; it prosecutes the abortionists instead of undertaking to reform that scandalous institution known as 'public assistance'; those r..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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09f88c1
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Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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6d50841
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Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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9b20b4b
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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ebd2aa9
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He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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79d8acb
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The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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b213854
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n lmr'@ lHqyqy@ lyst fy lwq` sw~ mntwj STn`y, Sn`th lHDr@ lsy'd@. w dh thrt lmr'@ `l~ hdhh lmfhym 'w sh`rt bnqSh fkhtrt 'n tkwn frdan kmlan, fnh t`d mtHrr@ `n mjtm`h w jnsh, w thmhlns blstrjl, l'n lTby`@ l'nthwy@ fy `rf lmjtm` t`ny lnqSn w lkhDw`.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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386288e
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The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and then after weeks and months of anxious perseverance, the intoxication of success.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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026b6cf
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Je crois que je comprends bien comment ca peut te faire. Nous avons essayee de batir notre amour par-dela les instants, mais seuls les instants sont surs. Pour le reste on a besoin de foi; et la foi, est-ce courage ou paresse?
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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d581ae9
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My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.
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joy
excruciation
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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bd86eaf
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I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling. I resolutely avoided bores, saw only those who amused me. We spent afternoons taking long walks, nights drinking and talking, and then we would leave each other, never to meet again, and there were no regrets. How simple life was. No regrets, no obligations, my acts and gestures counted for nothing, no one ask..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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ad45209
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The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; so to say it is ambiguous is to assert that it's meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through fai..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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e779191
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In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business or profession that their wives require them to be successful, it is because they alone embody transcendence that their wives wish to rob them of it by taking charge...
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marriage
truth
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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1953e43
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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810625b
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The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is never the given that confers superiorities: 'virtue', as the ancients called it, is defined on the level of 'that which depends on us'.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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f490a3d
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All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and obedience, and this obedience of a thousand little unsuspected muscles was in itself a miracle. Why ask for more?
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life
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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d22409d
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Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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2b9d85b
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The thing I understood least of all was that knowledge led to despair and damnation. Our spiritual mentor had not said that those bad books had given a false picture of life: if that had been the case, he could easily have exposed their falsehood; the tragedy of the little girl whom he had failed to bring to salvation was that she had made a premature discovery of the true nature of reality. Well, anyhow, I thought, I shall discover it myse..
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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428e3ea
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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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62cd6aa
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maintenant je n'ai plus de regrets,parce que les choses qui n'existent pas pour moi,il me semble qu'elles n'existent absolument pas.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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012b91e
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I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there's the true, preestablished balance.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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56979f4
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The validity of the cook's work is to be found only in the mouths of those at her table; she needs their approbation, demands that they appreciate her dishes and call for second helpings; she is upset if they are not hungry, to the point that one wonders whether the fried potatoes are for her husband or her husband for the fried potatoes.
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feminism
women
second-sex
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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38b6bdd
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wknt rtb@ Hy@ lkbr tthyr shfqty dy'man , wHyn 'drkt 'n hdhh lHy@ stkwn `m qryb mn nSyby , 'stwl~ `ly lDyq
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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1e084cc
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Kadini goturup mutfaga ya da suslenme odasina kapatiyor, sonra da ufkunun darligina sasiyoruz; kanatlarini kesiyoruz, sonra, ucamiyor diye yakiniyoruz.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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762dd24
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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5740356
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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af6bdd5
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To paint, to write, to engage in politics--these are not merely 'sublimations'; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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067ec58
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modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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eb3f462
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I should like this sky, this quiet water, to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me.
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Simone de Beauvoir |