Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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