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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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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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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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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