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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Beginning Himself Man Sex
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Be Yourself Experience Oneself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
The 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 BEAUVOIR

Hurt Sin Smile Tears
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

History Let Go Myself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Father Invention
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Easy People
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Future Justice Present
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Freedom Love Philosophy
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Freedom Moral Winner
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Oppression Protection
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Place Waste

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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