It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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