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«Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.»
«One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
«When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.»
«All oppression creates a state of war.»
«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 the absolute truth»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Work,
World
| Keywords:
absolute, absolute truth, confuse, describe, Point of, point of view, representation, representations, The Absolute, world view
«It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Courage,
Knowledge,
Life,
Sex
| Keywords:
accorded, give forth, In Humanity, kills, raised, risking, superiority, The Animal
«However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Gifts,
Talent
| Keywords:
developed, gifted, outset, surrounding, talents
«It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do.»
«It 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.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absolute, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, dimension, in a way, Parodies, parody, preserves, The Absolute, transforms
«In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.»
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