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It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
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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Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
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If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.
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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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But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
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But I must admit I didn´t like that idea do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.
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Habit has a kind of poetry.
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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other but for the same reason each is against the others.
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