She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIREvery war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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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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