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“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Change #Positive #Inspirational Life
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“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Love #Life #Kindness
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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Life And Love #Intelligent #Able
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“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Love #Romantic #Space
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“All oppression creates a state of war.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#War #Historical #Oppression
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“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Infinity #Accepting
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“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#War #Long #Victory
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“It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Life #Positive #Reason
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“Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Marriage #Careers #Benefits
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“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Men #Hands #World
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“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Inspirational #Freedom #4th Of July
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“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Women #Equality #Males
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“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Travel #New York #Sleep
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“The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Dream #Children #War
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“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Birthday #Time #Children
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“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Inspirational #Truth #Comfort
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“Buying is a profound pleasure.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Shopping #Profound #Buying
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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.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Eye #No Confidence
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“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Men #Arrogant #Aggressive
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“Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
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“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Children #Book #Despair
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“If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Issues #Arrogance #Males
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“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
#Aging #Strange #Ends
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“Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Eye #Mirrors #Age
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“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Life #Death #Sex
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“The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Mind #Way #Granted
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“Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Library #Adrift #Literature
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“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Fighting #Self #Guarantees
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“The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Mean #Winning #Men
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“One can not start by saying our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends on us to give it importance.”
-- Simone de Beauvoir
#Destiny #Giving #Importance
