I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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