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As quoted in Successful Aging : A Conference Report (1974) by Eric Pfeiffer, p. 142
Attributed
“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“All oppression creates a state of war”
Conclusion http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/2nd-sex/ch04.htm, p. 717
Source: The Second Sex (1949)
Context: All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception. The existent who is regarded as inessential cannot fail to demand the re-establishment of her sovereignty.
Today the combat takes a different shape; instead of wishing to put man in a prison, woman endeavours to escape from one; she no longer seeks to drag him into the realms of immanence but to emerge, herself, into the light of transcendence.
All Said and Done (1972), p. 16 ISBN 1569249814
General sources
“… her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
Source: The Second Sex
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
The Blood of Others [Le sang des autres] (1946)
General sources
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Attributed
Source: As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 548
Part I : Ambiguity and Freedom
The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)
Variant: Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting
Context: In spite of so many stubborn lies, at every moment, at every opportunity, the truth comes to light, the truth of life and death, of my solitude and my bond with the world, of my freedom and my servitude, of the insignificance and the sovereign importance of each man and all men. There was Stalingrad and there was Buchenwald, and neither of the two wipes out the other. Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look the truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting [C'est dans la connaissance des conditions authentiques de notre vie qu'il nous faut puiser la force de vivre et des raisons d'agir].