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!
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!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBut it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLiterature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHer wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRModern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRShe would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRToday, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHistory took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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