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“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“… counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“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.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Mandarins

Source: The Mandarins

“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”

Simone de Beauvoir

A Woman Destroyed [Une femme rompue] (1967)
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“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“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.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Mandarins

Source: The Mandarins

“all success cloaks a surrender”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Ethics of Ambiguity

Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity

“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 no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Blood of Others

Source: The Blood of Others

“I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Mandarins

Source: The Mandarins