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Force Of Circumstance
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A memoir that explores Simone de Beauvoir's personal and political experiences during World War II and the Algerian War.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir

motivation

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Simone de Beauvoir

freedom

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir

truth

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.

Simone de Beauvoir

genderpower

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Simone de Beauvoir

lifeadventure

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Simone de Beauvoir

relationships

If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

Simone de Beauvoir

perseverance

Life is too precious to be left to chance.

Simone de Beauvoir

life

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

Simone de Beauvoir

genius

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

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