If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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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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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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