I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRChange your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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 dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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