I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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