Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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