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Simone De Beauvoir Inspirational Quotes (213)

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If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
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To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
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Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
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Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.
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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
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All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.
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The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
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If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.
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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 the absolute truth.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
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Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
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The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
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Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it a discussion
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It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
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If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
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Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
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