Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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