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... to adapt one's outlook to...

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

Few books are more thrilling ...

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

To protest in the name of mor...

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

It is doubtless impossible to...

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

A man of the right doesn't wr...

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

I have never read a really go...

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

Picasso never thought of hims...

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

Old age is better for women t...

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

It's true that what you find ...

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

They [Americans] want to beli...

They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

We always come back to the sa...

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

The day knowledge was preferr...

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

Women's mutual understanding ...

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.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

I consider it almost antifemi...

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

There is not a single line in...

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

There are moments when you ha...

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

For years I thought my work s...

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

There are jobs that can be do...

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

Work would be terribly boring...

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

The individuals who seem to u...

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

Simone De Beauvoir 330 quotes

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