I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIREvery individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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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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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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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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