Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRA man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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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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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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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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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