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Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.”

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Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social activist. Known for her profound philosophical thoughts and her advocacy for women's status, she is one of the most influential female thinkers of the 20th century. Her works spanned various genres, including novels, philosophical essays, plays, and memoirs, with her most famous work being 'The Second Sex'. more

“The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.”

Men Want Facts Today Existence Cases Technology Gains Machines Radio Former Airplane Telephones Contradictory Science And Technology

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.”

Heart Happened Window Accounts Suicide Bars Chill Corpses Spine Frail

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“Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.”

Men Made Country Technology Stranger Stupidity Capitalist Socialist Crushed

Book:Les Belles Images

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“The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.”