Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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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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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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