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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, I will always be here.
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Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
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The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
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One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
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Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.
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You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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Old age is life's parody.
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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