Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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