One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThat’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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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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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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