Simone de Beauvoir: Frases em inglês

Simone de Beauvoir era Escritora francesa. Frases em inglês.
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“Sex pleasure in woman, as I have said, is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”

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Simone de Beauvoir livro O segundo sexo

Bk. 2, Pt.. 4, Ch. 3: Sexual Initiation. p. 396
The Second Sex (1949)

“Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.”

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Simone de Beauvoir livro O segundo sexo

Fonte: The Second Sex

“I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.”

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Simone de Beauvoir livro Os Mandarins

Fonte: The Mandarins

“Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.”

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“Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”

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Fonte: The Woman Destroyed

“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.”

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Simone de Beauvoir

Fonte: The Woman Destroyed

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”

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Simone de Beauvoir livro The Ethics of Ambiguity

Fonte: The Ethics of Ambiguity

“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”

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“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.”

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Simone de Beauvoir livro O segundo sexo

Bk. I, Pt. 2, Ch. 8: Since the French Revolution: the Job and the Vote, p. 133
Fonte: The Second Sex (1949)

“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.”

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Simone de Beauvoir

Fonte: The Woman Destroyed

“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”

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“People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.”

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Simone de Beauvoir livro Os Mandarins

Fonte: The Mandarins

“To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.”

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Fonte: Prime of Life

“…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.”

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Simone de Beauvoir

Fonte: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.”

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Simone de Beauvoir

Fonte: The Woman Destroyed