Simone de Beauvoir Quotes about Reality

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Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

Simone de Beauvoir

Reality, Murder, Captives

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

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

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.

Simone de Beauvoir

Tired, Reality, Thinking

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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes about Reality

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