Simone de Beauvoir Existential Quotations

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours...

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.