The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRFreedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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