To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSelf-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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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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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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