Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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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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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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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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