To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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