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!
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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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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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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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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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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