Simone de Beauvoir Short Quotes

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

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They were walking side by side, but each was alone.

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To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.

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It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

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To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

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Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

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I'm never afraid. But in my case it's nothing to be proud of.

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Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

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It's very hard to review one's past without cheating a little.

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Writing... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

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Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

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It is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

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Try to stay a man amongst men … There's no other hope for you.

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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

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No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

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To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

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The film was so typically American that it left nothing to thought.

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In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

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Society cares for the individual only in so far as he is profitable.

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Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

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The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

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A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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