To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRToday, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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