I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCounselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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