63 ordspråk av Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil
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As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I was fifty-three I felt at a staggering distance from forty-three
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Buying is a profound pleasure.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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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
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However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat
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