Simone de Beauvoir’s Classic Quotations

1. I long to see you, but please remember, I will not ask to see you. This is not because of pride, you know I have nothing to be proud of in front of you, but because our meeting only makes sense if you also want to see me.

2. Friendship between men is based on personal opinions and interests, while communication between women is based on the fact that they are in the same fate.

3.If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

4. Men require women to dedicate everything. When a woman contributes everything and lives in this way, a man will suffer from being overwhelmed.

5. We rely on memories, hopes, distance, and letters to love each other. Can we make this love a happy love in this world? We must do it. I believe we will, but it won't be easy.

6. Women are not born, but become.

7. I long to see you, but I know clearly that our meeting only makes sense if you also want to see me.

8. "Ah! If only I were two people," she thought, "One talks and the other listens, one lives and the other sees. How I know how to love myself! I don't envy anyone." She Close the handbag. At this very minute, thousands of women are feeling sorry for themselves.

9. Like everyone else, I am half accomplice and half victim.

10. When life is in chaos, literature appears.

11. It only makes sense for us to meet if you also want to see me. The same goes for love, it only makes sense if you love me too and I love you.

12. I walked towards the door; I couldn't risk my life, I couldn't smile at them, there would never be tears in my eyes, there would never be a fire in my heart. A person with no place to live, no past, no future, no present. I want nothing, I am nothing. I walk towards the end of the world step by step, and the end of the world retreats step by step; water drops spurt into the sky, time destroys time, my hands are always empty. A stranger, a dead man. They are human beings and they live. I am not in the same category as them. I don't have any hope. I stepped out of the doorway.

13. However, I have no illusions. I will never be able to break through this everlasting barrier. Through microscopes and telescopes, you still have to rely on your own eyes to see. Things only exist for us when they can be measured and touched, existing obediently in space and time, juxtaposed with other things; even if we land on the moon and drill into the bottom of the sea, we are still unable to escape from the human world. people. As for the mysterious reality that is elusive to our senses: forces, planets, molecules, waves, this is a large blank - a large blank that we leave due to ignorance and want to cover up with language.

14. Nature will never reveal its secrets to us, because it has no secrets; we make up some questions ourselves, and then concoct some answers; what we find at the bottom of the retort is just us My own thoughts; these thoughts, over the centuries, have grown in complexity into ever larger and more sophisticated systems, yet they have never enabled me to transcend my own thoughts. I put my eyes on the microscope, and what appears in front of my eyes and flashes through my mind is always this thing, never something else, and I can't be another.

15. I think the biggest difference between us is that human life is fleeting, so it is insignificant in your eyes.

16. Things that are built always fall apart, I know. From the moment people are born, they begin to die, but between birth and death is life.

17. If I build a hospital, people will live longer, but they will eventually die. Carmona now has two hundred thousand inhabitants, but they are no happier or kinder than before. There are more people, but everyone still experiences his own sorrow and joy alone. When there were only 20,000 inhabitants living within the ancient city walls, Carmona was still full.

18. Some people work diligently to get richer and richer, while others waste their lives in a dissolute life. In the past, the atmosphere in Carmona was pure and simple; now, every night there are fights in the streets, husbands take daggers to avenge their raped wives, fathers avenge their deceived daughters; they have given birth to so many children. , in the end all the children became extremely poor.

19. I understood them, now I understand them. In their eyes, the valuable things are never what they get, but what they do. If they cannot create, they must destroy, but in any case they must reject everything that exists, otherwise they would cease to be human. Our attempt to build a world on their behalf and shut them in will only lead to their hatred. This kind of order, this kind of peace that we dream of establishing for them will become the worst form of divine punishment.

20. Marriage is the union of two independent individuals, not an attachment, not a retreat, not an escape, not a compensation.

21. Women who are controlled by support are not liberated from men just because they have a vote in their hands! She is still in the position of a slave, and only labor is the guarantee of her true freedom.

22. Marriage is a sacred union, and any pleasure derived from it should be limited and must be accompanied by seriousness and seriousness.

23. What is an adult? A child inflated by age.

24. Women are not born, they become. They become weak because of changes and become strong because of changes.