A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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