Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRModern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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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 can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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