Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRA man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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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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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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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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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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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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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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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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