I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCounselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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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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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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