I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYou said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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