Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRRepresentation 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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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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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 tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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