She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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