Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLiterature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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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 so tiring to hate someone you love.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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 catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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