Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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