Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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 would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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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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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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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 be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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