Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHe 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!
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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