"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 (via zenlikeme)
"I knew only too well how desperately one can long for solitude and ‘the right not to talk’."
- Simone de Beauvoir- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (via rivke)
"Finally I decided a merely fruitful life would do. It still seemed to me very important to serve humanity, but I didn’t expect any reward as the opinions of others would not count any more."
- Simone de Beauvoir- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (via rivke)
no existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
Simone de Beauvoir - The Ethics of Ambiguity
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Every woman should read this masterpiece to understand what the freedom is . Existing and writing… This book explains those concepts beautifully.
"Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity."
- Simone de Beauvoir (via akabunny)
"The fact that we are all human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish humans from one another."
- Simone de Beauvoir (via thequotequeen)
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"Pour vous, j’ai prévu une robe que j’adore non parce que je la porterai, mais parce que je l’ôterai. J’espère qu’elle vous plaira pour une robe de déshabillage."
- Simone de Beauvoir, Lettres à Nelson Algren (via castorsimone)
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"Sexual pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon…"
- by Simone de Beauvoir (via jungleonthefloor)
"In horror, in terror, she accepted the metamorphosis — gnat, foam, ant, until death. And it’s only the beginning, she thought. She stood motionless, as if it were possible to play tricks with time, possible to stop it from following its course. But her hands stiffened against her quivering lips."
- Simone de Beauvoir (via marionon)
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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 (via cornersofmybrain)
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