All success cloaks a surrender.
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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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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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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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