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Simone de Beauvoir

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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself


— Simone de Beauvoir


#intelligence

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


— Simone de Beauvoir


#born #rather #woman

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].


— Simone de Beauvoir


#culture #literature #culture

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion


— Simone de Beauvoir


#love #philosophy #women #friendship

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.


— Simone de Beauvoir


#compassion #generosity #compassion

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.


— Simone de Beauvoir


#inifinity #life #old-age #age

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.


— Simone de Beauvoir


#repetition #sisyphus #torture

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.


— Simone de Beauvoir


#inspirational

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.


— Simone de Beauvoir


#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #self-esteem #weight

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.


— Simone de Beauvoir


#wisdom #women #manifestation






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Beauvoir herself was deeply religious as a child —- at one point intending to become a nun -— until Simone de Beauvoir experienced a crisis of faith at age 14 after which Simone de Beauvoir remained an atheist for the rest of her life. Debates rage on about the extent to which they influenced each other in their existentialist works such as Sartre's Being and Nothingness and Beauvoir's She Came to Stay. Beauvoir used Les Temps Modernes to promote her own work and explore her ideas on a small scale before fashioning essays and books.

"La Beauvoir" redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation). She is best known for her novels including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins as well as her 1949 treatise The Second Sex a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. Beauvoir wrote novels essays biographies an autobiography monographs on philosophy politics and social issues.

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