If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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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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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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