Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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 love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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