Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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