Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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