The thing I understood least of all was that knowledge led to despair and damnation. Our spiritual mentor had not said that those bad books had given a false picture of life: if that had been the case, he could easily have exposed their falsehood; the tragedy of the little girl whom he had failed to bring to salvation was that she had made a premature discovery of the true nature of reality. Well, anyhow, I thought, I shall discover it myself one day, and it isn’t going to kill me: the idea that there was a certain age when knowledge of the truth could prove fatal I found offensive to common sense.
Simone de BeauvoirAll she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and obedience, and this obedience of a thousand little unsuspected muscles was in itself a miracle. Why ask for more?
Simone de BeauvoirTag: life existentialism
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 BeauvoirThe Social Security's medical consultants support the interest not of the victims but of the organization.
Simone de BeauvoirJe sais qu'on ne peut jamais se connaître, mais seulement se raconter.
Simone de BeauvoirTag: self-awareness self-knowledge
Yaşamaya sıkı sıkı sarılmışsanız sizce ister gökyüzünde ister yeryüzünde olsun, ölümsüzlük ölümün acısını size unutturamaz, sizi avutamaz.
Simone de BeauvoirGün doğarken ancak dört saatlik bir ömrü kalmıştı. Dirilttim onu!" Kendisine "Ne için?" diye sormak cesaretini bulamadım.
Simone de BeauvoirNul n'est plus arrogant à l'égard des femmes, agressif ou dédaigneux, qu'un homme inquiet de sa virilité.
Simone de BeauvoirTag: gender-roles
When she does not find love, she may find poetry. Because she does not act, she observes, she feels, she records; a color, a smile awakens profound echoes within her; her destiny is outside her, scattered in cities already built, on the faces of men already marked by life, she makes contact, she relishes with passion and yet in a manner more detached, more free, than that of a young man. Being poorly integrated in the universe of humanity and hardly able to adapt herself therein, she, like the child, is able to see it objectively; instead of being interested solely in her grasp on things, she looks for their significance; she catches their special outlines, their unexpected metamorphoses. She rarely feels a bold creativeness, and usually she lacks the technique of self-expression; but in her conversation, her letters, her literary essays, her sketches, she manifests an original sensitivity. The young girl throws herself into things with ardor, because she is not yet deprived of her transcendence; and the fact that she accomplishes nothing, that she is nothing, will make her impulses only the more passionate. Empty and unlimited, she seeks from within her nothingness to attain All.
Simone de BeauvoirГораздо больше, чем отвлеченные политические и социальные вопросы, меня интересовало то, что касалось меня непосредственно: понятие нравственности, моя внутренняя жизнь, мои взаимоотношения с Богом. Над этим-то я и начала размышлять.
Simone de BeauvoirTag: вопросы
« prima precedente
Pagina 15 di 23.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.