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Letter "S" » Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
«It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.»
«The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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bridle, bridled, bridles, faculty, Faculty of, rudder, The Faculty, the senses
«To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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