French - Writer | January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
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Buying is a profound pleasure.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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