She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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