All success cloaks a surrender.
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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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