Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBecause we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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 would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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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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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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