I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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 is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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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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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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