All success cloaks a surrender.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll success cloaks a surrender.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLiterature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAuthentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCounselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSelf-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRChange your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHistory took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRA day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRPeople seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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