Simone de Beauvoir Quotes


Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.


Citations

de Beauvoir, Simone. The Ethics of Ambiguity. Translated by Bernard Frechtman, Philosophical Library, 1948, p. 82.

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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
  • Born: January 9, 1908
  • Died: April 14, 1986
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.