One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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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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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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