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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Myself Scare
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Earth Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Oppression Protection
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Age Children Perspective
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Arrogant Mad Man
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Freedom Spring Value
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Father Invention
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Philosophy World
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Demand Sacrifice War
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Decision Freedom Oneself Willing

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