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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
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As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
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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.
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It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age' the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.
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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
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…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.
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It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
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As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
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In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
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The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
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The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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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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