"Force Of Circumstance" Quotes
A memoir that explores Simone de Beauvoir's personal and political experiences during World War II and the Algerian War.
biography | 688 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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.
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.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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.
Life is too precious to be left to chance.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a 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.





