00:00One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one.
00:04Simone de Beauvoir
00:08The most alarming of all things is that anyone can be disillusioned.
00:14Simone de Beauvoir
00:18It is not the world that is the ultimate source of the evils that plague us, but our own consciences.
00:25Simone de Beauvoir
00:30Freedom is the very fabric of human existence.
00:34Simone de Beauvoir
00:38All oppression creates a state of war.
00:42Simone de Beauvoir
00:46Wrinkles are the cartography of a life.
00:50Simone de Beauvoir
00:54Man can be defined as that being who is interested in what he is not.
01:00Simone de Beauvoir
01:03What they call a genius is the result of a thousand not-so-great ideas.
01:09Simone de Beauvoir
01:13The present is the most fleeting of things.
01:17Simone de Beauvoir
01:21The future is a direction, not a place.
01:25Simone de Beauvoir
01:29I wish that every human life may be put from its beginning into the protection of reason.
01:36Simone de Beauvoir
01:40If you are a woman, you are always more or less of an exile.
01:45Simone de Beauvoir
01:49The best way to escape from this world is to immerse yourself in it.
01:54Simone de Beauvoir
01:58The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the
02:04dance.
02:05Simone de Beauvoir
02:09I may not be able to change the world, but I can change the world of those around me.
02:16Simone de Beauvoir
02:20There is no justification for that kind of suffering.
02:24Simone de Beauvoir
02:28What is life, if not a series of attempts to impose order on chaos?
02:34Simone de Beauvoir
02:38One lives only by the sacrifices one makes.
02:43Simone de Beauvoir
02:47The greatest glory of a man is not in never falling, but in rising every time he falls.
02:54Simone de Beauvoir
02:58A woman's life is in her hands, and she is free to shape it as she wills.
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