She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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 enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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