To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRFathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSex 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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRPeople seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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 BEAUVOIROne’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIREthics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHe reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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