Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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