To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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