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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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