The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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