Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCapabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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