I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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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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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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