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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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