To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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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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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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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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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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