Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Defeat

Quotes about: Defeat

• If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  War, Long, Victory

  "All Men Are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

• I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Distance, Thinking, Sky

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.6, Open Road Media

• Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Struggle, Love Is, Self

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

• Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Long, Victory, Defeat

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