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«What is an adult? A child blown up by age.»
«Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.»
«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»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| Keywords:
fifty-three, forty-three, sixty-three, stagger, staggered, staggering, staggers
«The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| Keywords:
asking, curse, deceptive, desiring, disinterestedly, find oneself, gaining, individuals, joined, plenitude, seeks, self-seeking, transcend, unable, warmth, wrapped, wrapped up
«No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Arrogance,
Men,
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
aggressive, anxious, arrogant, scornful, virility
«The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.»
«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»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
behaves, defined, female, human being, imitate, imitated
«If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.»
«I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom»
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