I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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 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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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