She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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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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