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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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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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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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