Simone de Beauvoir quote about love from The Second Sex - To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that perpetuates desire.
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“ To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that perpetuates desire. ”
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Author Simone de Beauvoir
Source The Second Sex
Topic love desire woman
Date 1949
Language English
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Note Translated by Constance Borde and 
Sheila Malovany Chevallier
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“Se faire objet, se faire passive, c'est tout autre chose qu'être un objet passif : une amoureuse n'est ni une dormeuse ni une morte ; il y a en elle un élan qui sans cesse retombe et sans cesse se renouvelle : c'est l'élan retombé qui crée...” Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe

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Simone de Beauvoir quote about love from The Second Sex - To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that perpetuates desire.
Simone de Beauvoir quote about love from The Second Sex - To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that perpetuates desire.