Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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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Love Perspective Understand
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story

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