Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
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Power to the peaceful.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
