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Live with no time-out. — Simone De Beauvoir

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being. — Simone De Beauvoir

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other. — Simone De Beauvoir

It is so tiring to hate someone you love. — Simone De Beauvoir

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone De Beauvoir

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. — Simone De Beauvoir

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly. — Simone De Beauvoir

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole ... — Simone De Beauvoir

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman. — Simone De Beauvoir

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. — Simone De Beauvoir

Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant. — 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

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. — Simone De Beauvoir

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death. — Simone De Beauvoir

One is not born a woman, but becomes one. — Simone De Beauvoir

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. — Simone De Beauvoir

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. — Simone De Beauvoir

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature. — Simone De Beauvoir

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity. — Simone De Beauvoir

Yet a revolution cannot begin until the diffuse, private indignation of individuals coalesces into a common cause. Beauvoir not only marshaled — Simone De Beauvoir

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover. — Simone De Beauvoir

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe. — Simone De Beauvoir

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct — Simone De Beauvoir

Buying is a profound pleasure. — Simone De Beauvoir

A man attaches himself to woman
not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. — Simone De Beauvoir

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter. — Simone De Beauvoir

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. — Simone De Beauvoir

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws. — Simone De Beauvoir

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. — Simone De Beauvoir

Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality. — 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

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. — Simone De Beauvoir