Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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