Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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