Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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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 am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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