697 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ...

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.