Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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