I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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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 is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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