Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRDeath itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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