One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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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.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in 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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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