Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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 realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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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!
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