Quotes

“Buying is a profound pleasure.” Simone de Beauvoir

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” Simone de Beauvoir

“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.” Simone de Beauvoir

“Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.” Simone de Beauvoir

“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.” Simone de Beauvoir

“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.” Simone de Beauvoir

“This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.” Simone de Beauvoir

“When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.” Simone de Beauvoir

“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.” Simone de Beauvoir

“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.” Simone de Beauvoir

“The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.” Simone de Beauvoir

“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.” Simone de Beauvoir

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” William Blake

“To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.” William Blake

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” William Blake

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” William Blake

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” William Blake

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” William Blake

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” William Blake

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” William Blake

“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.” William Blake

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” William Blake

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” William Blake

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” William Blake

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” William Blake

“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.” William Blake

“Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.” William Blake

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.” William Blake

“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.” William Blake

“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.” William Blake