Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThat’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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