You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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