Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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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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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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