Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Library, Literature, Adrift

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

• In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Suicide, Hate, Reality

• Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Virginia, Creating

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• A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, Literature, Understood

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

• Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Revenge, Reality, Fiction

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.34, HarperCollins

• Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Literature, Ideology, Dominant

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• What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Writing, Class, People

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• Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mind, France, Literature

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

• I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  God, Literature, Sacred

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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