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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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