Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de BeauvoirA day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: writing
Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
Simone de BeauvoirToday, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: death existentialism
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: war existentialism
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: death existentialism aloneness
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: morality ethics existentialism
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 BeauvoirTags: ambiguity existentialism philosophers
Er erzählte mir Geschichten, und vor allem ging er mit mir spazieren. Er zeigte mir Straßen und Plätze, Quais und Kanäle, die Friedhöfe, die Hafenplätze und Lagerhäuser, die unsicheren Viertel, die Kneipen - so viele Ecken von Paris, die ich nicht kannte.
Simone de BeauvoirWhy one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
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