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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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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It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
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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 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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A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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Habit has a kind of poetry.
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My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.
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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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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its contribution. At least, I hope so.
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Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
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It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
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Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
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