I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRA man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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