I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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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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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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 day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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