Dusk is about to fall, but it is still warm. It is one of these heart-touching moments when the world is so well attuned to men that it seems impossible that they should not all be happy…
S. de B.
Dusk is about to fall, but it is still warm. It is one of these heart-touching moments when the world is so well attuned to men that it seems impossible that they should not all be happy…
S. de B.
"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."
- Simone de Beauvoir. (via wherethewavesbreak)
(via wherethewavesbreak)
cela, il est.
Original hipsters?
"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."
- Simone de Beauvoir. (via wherethewavesbreak)
(via wherethewavesbreak)
“Words are loaded pistols.”
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, 1929
(Source: frenchtwist)
“I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating.” - Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir, at Café de Flore
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. “
Simone de Beauvoir
(Source: lyyanna)
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself — on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life “
(Source: efficientlotus)
"[Man] bears the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of himself, where his defeats are inscribed, and his victories as well.” -Simone De Beauvoir"
- Thank you. I love philosophies that put potential and responsibility in the hands of humanity. There is no reason we should be led around by the nose by some unseen thing supposedly controlling us. I want to believe the the decisions I make are meaningful and that my involvement in my own life is the most powerful force affecting it. (via cynthiaandphilosophy)
“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”
“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself — on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life …”“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
Simone de Beauvoir
(Source: intersectionalityorbust)
"The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself."
- Simone De Beauvoir (via fibreoptics)
(Source: sunset-tree)
