02UndatedIf you live long enough you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.Simone de Beauvoir / quote ↗
03UndatedThere is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.Simone de Beauvoir / quote ↗
05UndatedAt night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless.Simone de Beauvoir / quote ↗
07UndatedRepresentation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.Simone de Beauvoir / quote ↗
08UndatedIt is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.Simone de Beauvoir / quote ↗
10UndatedThe most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.Simone de Beauvoir / quote ↗
12UndatedSociety, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.Simone de Beauvoir / quote ↗
13UndatedSociety cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.Simone de Beauvoir / quote ↗
