If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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