He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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