Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBe loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRToday, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCounselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRDeath itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRModern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRA man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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