Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHer wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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