That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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