Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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