History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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