What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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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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