Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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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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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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