Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCapabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll success cloaks a surrender.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRA man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRRepresentation 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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is so tiring to hate someone you love.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLiterature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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