One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRPeople seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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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 lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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