I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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