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I willingly trust myself to c...

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

To create a language all of a...

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

We must not confuse the prese...

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

She offered her mouth to him,...

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

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I've always been keenly aware...

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

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The human species is forever ...

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

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I think that feminism permits...

I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.

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Anger or revolt that does not...

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

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I never thought of myself as ...

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

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My worst mistake has been not...

My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.

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The ideal of happiness has al...

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.

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I discovered feminism around ...

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

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There's something tragic abou...

There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

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One day I'll be old, dead, fo...

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

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Woman has always been man's d...

Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

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If women really did have comp...

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

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Hegel held that the two sexes...

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

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All the opportunities you let...

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn?t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you?re closed up tight. That?s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

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The notion of ambiguity must ...

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; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its 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 failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

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Tragedies are all right for a...

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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