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Explore the profound wisdom of Simone de Beauvoir through her most impactful quotes. This collection delves into her thoughts on existence, freedom, gender, and the human condition. Discover insights that resonate with thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Virginia Woolf, offering a unique perspective on living authentically.

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00:01Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men, they describe it from their own point
00:06of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
00:11Simone de Beauvoir
00:15What they want is to be able to live without constraint, without being subjected to the arbitrariness of others.
00:23Simone de Beauvoir
00:27There is no absolute, there is only change. Simone de Beauvoir
00:35It is on the level of the concrete, the everyday, that the oppression of women is enacted. Simone de Beauvoir
00:46The greatest thing we can do is to know ourselves. Simone de Beauvoir
00:54A woman's life is always a life lived in relation to men, whether she likes it or not. Simone de
01:02Beauvoir
01:02To be free is not to do what one likes, but to be able to do what one ought. Simone
01:11de Beauvoir
01:15Man is defined as a human being and a woman is a female, whenever she varies from the prescribed role,
01:21she is abnormal.
01:24Simone de Beauvoir
01:25We are
01:25We are
01:26We are

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