History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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