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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRDeath itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSelf-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIREthics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe 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 BEAUVOIRI could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCounselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRShe was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo 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 BEAUVOIRMan must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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