To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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 only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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