There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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 catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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