The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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 enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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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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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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