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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
