That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThat the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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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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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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