A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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