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!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRShe was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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