Beauty Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?”

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The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,…

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

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Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not…

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“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.”

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“Ženama se ne rađamo, nego postajemo”

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

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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.

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However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because…

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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…

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Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

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“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai”

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from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it…

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