To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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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.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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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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