Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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