To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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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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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