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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI 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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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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 day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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.
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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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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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