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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

«Art is an attempt to integrate evil»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir (Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: integrate, integrates
«To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir (Writer) | Keywords: passive
«Buying is a profound pleasure.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir (Writer) | Keywords: buying, profound
«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»
«Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority»
«To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.»
«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»
«Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.»
«That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.»
«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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