SimonedeBeauvoir

I am a 20th century French existentialist philosopher.

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All oppression creates a state of war. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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Defending the truth is not something one does to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. #husband #SimonedeBeauvoir #job

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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. #SimonedeBeauvoir #Victory #Defeat

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. #SimonedeBeauvoir #existentialism

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. #SimonedeBeauvoir #existential

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It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one stands there, the only witness to a vanished world. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust. #SimonedeBeauvoir #lifechanges #falling

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When I was a child...books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values. #SimonedeBeauvoir #books

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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The constructive qualities of man take on a valid meaning only when they are assumed as a movement toward freedom. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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Cowardice doesn't pay. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our reason for acting. #SimonedeBeauvoir