All Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
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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.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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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 the absolute truth.
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