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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French Writer
Born: Jan 9, 1908
Died: Apr 14, 1986
Being Life Love Man Truth Woman
Related authors: Alfred de Musset Andre Maurois Francois de La Rochefoucauld Joseph Joubert Madame de Stael Roger de Rabutin Stendhal Voltaire
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
Motivational Life Today Future Change Delay Without Gamble Act Your Now
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Simone de Beauvoir
Life Love Friendship Compassion Value Long Sympathy Others Indignation Attributes Means
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Simone de Beauvoir
Man Women Arrogant Aggressive About More No-One Toward His Scornful Than Anxious Who
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Simone de Beauvoir
Art Relationship Job Husband Catch Him Hold
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. Simone de Beauvoir
Life Death Time Age Old Giving Old Age Preserves Way Destiny Dimension Rather Absolute Parody Does Than Contrasted Whereas Away
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
Truth Truth Is Reward Guilt Duty Sense Complexes Out Something Does Itself Defending
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. Simone de Beauvoir
Society Cares Only Individual He Far Profitable
All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir
War Oppression State Creates
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir
Love Truth Myself Me Through Safe Comfort Rewarded Certainties Away
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. Simone de Beauvoir
Work Truth World Men Own Confuse Absolute Point Point Of View Absolute Truth Like Itself Representation Which View Describe
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. Simone de Beauvoir
Broken Woman Words Sex Oppose Spell Complete Pleasure Abandon Kind Magic Demands Movements
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
Life Living Only Both Maintain Occupied Does Surpassing Perpetuating Itself Dying Then
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. Simone de Beauvoir
You Victory Long Live Defeat Every Enough See Turns
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. Simone de Beauvoir
Man Will Made Power Destroy Fact Point He Him Terrifying Always Idols However His Subordinate May Them Why
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. Simone de Beauvoir
Man Woman Inferiority Society Destroying Superiority Only She Male Inferior Being Away
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Simone de Beauvoir
Inferiority Become Situation Fact Individual He Does Inferior Kept
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
Man Woman Obligation Human Being Fear Feeling Heterosexuality Restraint Ideal Without Limiting Itself Human Being Either Loving Capable Should Homosexuality
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. Simone de Beauvoir
Overcome Impossible Face Stupid Stubbornness Obstacle Which
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir
Woman Born Rather Becomes
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. Simone de Beauvoir
Man World Adequate Seemed None Always Been Offered Explanation Reasons
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. Simone de Beauvoir
Life Man Animal Humanity Sex Giving Has-Been Above Superiority Risking Been Accorded Which Forth Why Brings Raised
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
Love Cause Word Sense Sexes Both Divide Misunderstandings Same Them Means Serious
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
Rejection Prolonged Thrown Retirement Looked May Being Either Holiday
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. Simone de Beauvoir
Women Feels Most Himself Males Compared Mediocre
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. Simone de Beauvoir
Art Evil Attempt Integrate

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