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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone De Beauvoir

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Simone De Beauvoir

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Simone de Beauvoir

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Simone De Beauvoir

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Simone De Beauvoir

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Simone De Beauvoir

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone De Beauvoir

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.

Simone De Beauvoir

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Simone De Beauvoir

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Simone de Beauvoir

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone De Beauvoir

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

Simone de Beauvoir

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