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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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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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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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