All success cloaks a surrender.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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