Simone de Beauvoir

France
9 Jan 1908 // 14 Apr 1986
Writer

Representation 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 absolute truth.

The Second Sex

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The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays