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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRFreedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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