I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it make… - Simone de Beauvoir

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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French author and existentialist philosopher. She is now most famous for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex [Le Deuxième Sexe], a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism, and her long personal relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Pen Names: Le Castor

Alternative Names: Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir • Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir • Castor

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As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light — it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.

For the first time I saw her as a dead body under suspended sentence.

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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy. - Simone de Beauvoir

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