When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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