You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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