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Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “One of the most remarkable features to be noted as we survey the scale of animal life is that as we go up, individuality is seen to be more and more fully developed. At the bottom, life is concerned only in the survival of the species as a whole; at the top, life seeks expression through particular individuals, while accomplishing also the survival of the group.”

351. “One of the most remarkable features to be noted as we survey the scale of animal life is that as we go up, individuality is seen to be more and more fully developed. At the bottom, life is concerned only in the survival of the species as a whole; at the top, life seeks expression through particular individuals, while accomplishing also the survival of the group.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “People say you have to have faith because believing is irrational. So I end up thinking that the more irrational things seem, the more likely they are to be true.”

352. “People say you have to have faith because believing is irrational. So I end up thinking that the more irrational things seem, the more likely they are to be true.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Morality resides in the painfulness of an indefinite questioning.”

353. “Morality resides in the painfulness of an indefinite questioning.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Love is then renunciation of all possession, of all confusion. One renounces being in order that there may be that being which one is not.”

354. “Love is then renunciation of all possession, of all confusion. One renounces being in order that there may be that being which one is not.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “I didn’t understand: you don’t believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?”

355. “I didn’t understand: you don’t believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “There are photographs of both of us, taken at about the same time: I am eighteen, she is nearly forty. Today I could almost be her mother and the grandmother of that sad-eyed girl. I am so sorry for them – for me because I am so young and I understand nothing; for her because her future is closed and she has never understood anything.”

356. “There are photographs of both of us, taken at about the same time: I am eighteen, she is nearly forty. Today I could almost be her mother and the grandmother of that sad-eyed girl. I am so sorry for them – for me because I am so young and I understand nothing; for her because her future is closed and she has never understood anything.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “To be no one, all things considered, is something of a privilege.”

357. “To be no one, all things considered, is something of a privilege.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “I cannot withdraw into myself. I exist, outside myself and everywhere in the world. There is not an inch of my path which does not encroach on the path of another: there is no way of being that can prevent me from overflowing myself at every moment. This life that I weave with my own substance, it offers other men a thousand unknown faces, it crosses impetuously their fate.”

358. “I cannot withdraw into myself. I exist, outside myself and everywhere in the world. There is not an inch of my path which does not encroach on the path of another: there is no way of being that can prevent me from overflowing myself at every moment. This life that I weave with my own substance, it offers other men a thousand unknown faces, it crosses impetuously their fate.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “With regard to us, she often displayed a cruel unkindness that was more thoughtless than sadistic: her desire was not to cause us unhappiness but to prove her own power to herself.”

359. “With regard to us, she often displayed a cruel unkindness that was more thoughtless than sadistic: her desire was not to cause us unhappiness but to prove her own power to herself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Time vanishes behind those who leave this world, and the older I get the more my past years draw together.”

360. “Time vanishes behind those who leave this world, and the older I get the more my past years draw together.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Todas las mujeres se creen diferentes; todas piensan que ciertas cosas no pueden sucederles, y todas ellas se equivocan.”

361. “Todas las mujeres se creen diferentes; todas piensan que ciertas cosas no pueden sucederles, y todas ellas se equivocan.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “I had had a general sort of idea that the life I had behind me was a landscape in which I could wander as I pleased, gradually exploring its winding and its hidden valleys. No. I could repeat names and dates, just as a schoolboy can bring out a carefully learned lesson on a subject he knows nothing about. And at long intervals there arose worn, faded images, as abstract as those in my old French history: they stood out arbitrarily, against a white background.”

362. “I had had a general sort of idea that the life I had behind me was a landscape in which I could wander as I pleased, gradually exploring its winding and its hidden valleys. No. I could repeat names and dates, just as a schoolboy can bring out a carefully learned lesson on a subject he knows nothing about. And at long intervals there arose worn, faded images, as abstract as those in my old French history: they stood out arbitrarily, against a white background.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “When one has lived so much for others it is quite hard to turn oneself back again – to live for oneself.”

363. “When one has lived so much for others it is quite hard to turn oneself back again – to live for oneself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “The goal which my freedom aims at is conquering existence across the always inadequate density of being.”

364. “The goal which my freedom aims at is conquering existence across the always inadequate density of being.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Likewise, the most mediocre of males believes himself a demigod next to women.”

365. “Likewise, the most mediocre of males believes himself a demigod next to women.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Making money does not seem to me a very elevating ambition.”

366. “Making money does not seem to me a very elevating ambition.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “What stops them is that as soon as they give the word “end” its double meaning of goal and fulfillment they clearly perceive this ambiguity of their condition, which is the most fundamental of all: that every living movement is a sliding toward death. But if they are willing to look it in the face they also discover that every movement toward death is life.”

367. “What stops them is that as soon as they give the word “end” its double meaning of goal and fulfillment they clearly perceive this ambiguity of their condition, which is the most fundamental of all: that every living movement is a sliding toward death. But if they are willing to look it in the face they also discover that every movement toward death is life.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “They’re devouring my life with their mouths, with their eyes.”

368. “They’re devouring my life with their mouths, with their eyes.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “We only exist if we act.”

369. “We only exist if we act.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look the truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting.”

370. “Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look the truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.”

371. “The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir Quote: “It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.”

372. “It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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