A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRDeath itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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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 tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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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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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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