Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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