One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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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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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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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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