One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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