Quotes from Simone de Beauvoir

All around me the world lies like an immense hypothesis that I can no longer verify.

Dios mío! ¡Haz que existas! Haz que haya un cielo y un infierno me pasearé por los senderos del paraíso con mi hijo y con mi hija querida y ellos se retorcerán en las llamas de la envidia los miraré tostarse y gemir reiré y los niños reirán conmigo. Me debes esa revancha Dios mío. Exijo que me la des.

Souvent, quand les malades souffraient un long martyre, je m'étais indignée de l'inertie de leurs proches. [...] Je me demandais comment on s'arrange pour survivre quand quelqu'un de cher vous a crié en vain : Pitié !

Yet, there is hardly a sadder virtue than resignation. It transforms into phantoms and contingent reveries projects which had at the beginning been set up as will and freedom.

Pero nuestros actos no esperan ser llamados; saltan hacia un porvenir que no está prefigurado en ninguna parte.

The books I liked became a Bible from which I drew advice and support; they created a kind of communion between myself and those twin souls which existed somewhere out of reach.

Împingând la paroxism viaÅ£a auster? care-mi fusese h?r?zit?, am transformat-o în vocaÅ£ie; am convertit privaÅ£iunea de pl?ceri în ascez?; în loc s? m? târ?sc de la o zi la alta, într-o plictisitoare uniformitate, mi-o luasem mie îns?mi înainte, mut?, cu privirea fix?, îndreptându-m? c?tre o Å£int? ascuns?.

ByÃ…Â¥ ženou znamená byÃ…Â¥ objektom, tou Druhou.

I think he looks upon me as a mathematical constant whose disappearance would take him very much aback without in any way altering his destiny, since the heart of the matter lies elsewhere.

the astonishing thing the thing I like is that I should have admitted it. No compromise no act: that proper little woman was me all right. I'm clean I'm straight I don't join in any act: that makes them mad they hate being seen through they want you to believe the stuff they hand out or at least pretend to.

El espantoso descenso al fondo de la tristeza. Por lo mismo que uno está triste, no tiene más ganas de hacer nada alegre. Ya nunca pongo un disco cuando me levanto.Ya nunca escucho música, no voy más al cine, no me compro nada que me guste.

In the unfertilised egg not even the concept of femaleness is as yet established. As Hegel justly remarks the sexual relation cannot be referred back to the relation of the gametes. It is our duty, then, to study the female organism as a whole.

Few myths have been more advantageous to the ruling master caste than this one: it justifies all privileges and even authorizes taking advantage of them. Men do not have to care about alleviating the suffering and the burdens that are physiologically women's lot since they are intended by Nature; they take this as pretext for increasing the misery of the women's condition-- for example, by denying woman the right to sexual pleasure, or making her work like a beast of burden.

In amorous passion particularly, one does not want the beloved being to be admired objectively; one prefers to think her unknown, unrecognized; the lover thinks that his appropriation of her is greater if he is alone in revealing her worth. That is the genuine thing offered by all passion.

Women is the negative, to such a point that any determination is imputed to her as a limitation, without reciprocity.

La Malédiction qui pèse sur le mariage, c'est que trop souvent les individus s'y rejoignent dans leur faiblesse, non dans leur force, c'est que chacun demande à l'autre au lieu de se plaire à lui donner.

Ja, wenn ich Ihre Energie hätte...' Mit Energie hat das gar nichts zu tun, dachte ich beim Aussteigen. Ich könnte einfach nicht leben, ohne zu Schreiben.

From the hour you're born you begin to die. But between birth and death there's life.

Muži sú tyrani... Zaobchádzajú s nami ako s hra?kami... robia si z nás prá?ky a kuchárky.

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

Mi ero voluta senza limiti ed ero informe come l'infinito. La cosa paradossale è che mi accorsi di questa deficienza proprio nel momento in cui scoprivo la mia individualità: la mia pretesa al'universale fin allora mi era apparsa ovvi, e invece, ecco che diveniva un tratto di carattere. Simone si interessa di tutto. Mi trovavo delimitata dal mio rifiuto dei limiti.

To exist genuinely is not to deny this spontaneous movement of my transcendence, but only to refuse to lose myself in it.

No dia que for possível à mulher amar em sua força e não em sua fraqueza, não para fugir de si mesma, mas para se encontrar, não para se renunciar, mas para se afirmar, nesse dia o amor tornar-se-á para ela, como para o homem, fonte de vida e não perigo mortal.

I loved being loved: the bleakness of my future terrified me.