I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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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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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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