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Simone de Beauvoir

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ha...
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FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND Oui, je me rappelai.
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...
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on peut faire de poème.
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sans la douce...
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Et je ne laiss...
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Exister c’est oser se jeter dans le monde.
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR But I miss you to the point of anguish.
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR I closed my eyes, but that didn't blur the images his words had evoked. "Oh, God," I murmured.
...
JEANNETTE DE BEAUVOIR There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justi...
SIMONE WEIL The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
SIMONE WEIL The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
SIMONE WEIL More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact ...
SIMONE WEIL For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends ar...
SIMONE WEIL All sins are attempts to fill voids.
SIMONE WEIL To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
SIMONE WEIL Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
SIMONE WEIL I can, therefore I am.
SIMONE WEIL I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
NINA SIMONE The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the re...
NINA SIMONE Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument...
NINA SIMONE Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed wh...
SIMONE WEIL There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of...
SIMONE WEIL Most athletes get intimidated once they see how many fans are out there, but it almost calms me down...
SIMONE BILES Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
HANNAH SIMONE I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
HANNAH SIMONE It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more p...
HANNAH SIMONE My lashes are so long that if I don't curl them, I'm blind.
HANNAH SIMONE Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and...
HANNAH SIMONE Fusion fashion - that's what I'm inspired by, taking all these different cultures and then t...
HANNAH SIMONE Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.
HANNAH SIMONE Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge li...
HANNAH SIMONE I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be cel...
HANNAH SIMONE The thing I learned about being in this industry is the core of hosting and the core of acting is au...
HANNAH SIMONE You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
HANNAH SIMONE I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized ...
HANNAH SIMONE It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional worki...
HANNAH SIMONE When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get...
HANNAH SIMONE A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pl...
SIMONE WEIL Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to kno...
SIMONE WEIL A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
SIMONE WEIL Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs...
SIMONE WEIL Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And o...
SIMONE WEIL The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of ind...
SIMONE WEIL To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
SIMONE WEIL Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the se...
SIMONE WEIL To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing i...
SIMONE WEIL Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great advers...
SIMONE WEIL A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its opti...
SIMONE WEIL What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to li...
SIMONE WEIL Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. ...
SIMONE WEIL The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
SIMONE WEIL In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below begg...
SIMONE WEIL Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
SIMONE WEIL In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
SIMONE WEIL Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people tog...
SIMONE SIGNORET Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both....
SIMONE WEIL We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an ima...
SIMONE WEIL In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been a...
SIMONE WEIL Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train ma...
SIMONE WEIL Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
SIMONE WEIL Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
SIMONE WEIL Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're ...
SIMONE ELKELES Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I gi...
SIMONE ELKELES We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am sufferi...
SIMONE WEIL The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..."
"You've never seen a guy wit...
SIMONE ELKELES Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.
SIMONE ELKELES When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door...
SIMONE WEIL A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being d...
SIMONE WEIL As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to t...
SIMONE WEIL But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
SIMONE ELKELES I give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're where I want to be.
SIMONE ELKELES dear kiara,
The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose ...
SIMONE ELKELES Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case...
SIMONE WEIL To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to...
SIMONE WEIL Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying ...
SIMONE WEIL Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
SIMONE WEIL There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the...
SIMONE WEIL I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
SIMONE WEIL The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their i...
SIMONE WEIL Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
SIMONE SIGNORET The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
SIMONE WEIL Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
SIMONE WEIL The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is m...
SIMONE WEIL It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
SIMONE WEIL