History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan 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.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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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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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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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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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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