Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
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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Easy People
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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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Father Invention
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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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Existence Freedom Spring Value
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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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Acceptance Man
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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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Human Man Woman
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
He 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!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection

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