One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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