She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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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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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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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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