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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.
Simone de Beauvoir
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir -
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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Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.
Simone de Beauvoir
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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
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We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
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I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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It is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.
Simone de Beauvoir -
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
Simone de Beauvoir -
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
Simone de Beauvoir -
A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
Simone de Beauvoir