That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in 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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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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