The Ethics of Ambiguity

by Simone de Beauvoir
France
9 Jan 1908 // 14 Apr 1986
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

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The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays