There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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 can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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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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