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.
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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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