Simone de Beauvoir Quotes


Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.


Citations

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Woman Destroyed. Translated by Patrick O'Brian, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969, p. 195.

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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.