Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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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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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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