He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhat would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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