History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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