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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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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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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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