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 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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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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