Simone de Beauvoir

Writer

56 Quotes

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Seseorang tidak dilahirkan sebagai seorang jenius, seseorang menjadi seorang yang jenius.

Kematian tampaknya jauh lebih buruk ketika Anda lelah.

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

Kata cinta sama sekali tak bermakna serupa bagi kedua jenis anak manusia, dan inilah yang menyulut kesalahpahaman mendasar di antara mereka.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Laki-laki yang paling biasa-biasa saja merasa dirinya sebagai setengah dewa dibandingkan dengan perempuan.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

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.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Hidup adalah menjadi tua, tidak lebih.

Itu adalah usia tua, bukan kematian, yang harus dikontraskan dengan kehidupan. Usia tua adalah parodi kehidupan, sedangkan kematian mengubah hidup menjadi takdir: dengan cara mempertahankannya dengan memberinya dimensi absolut. Kematian menghilang seiring waktu.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Pidato kadang-kadang hanya mewakili cara yang lebih cerdik daripada diam untuk tetap diam.

Apa itu dewasa? Seorang anak yang membengkak karena usia.

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