I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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