To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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