I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll success cloaks a surrender.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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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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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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