What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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 I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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