Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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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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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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