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Simone De Beauvoir Quotes

"What I demand of the worker is not to produce something for fifty cents an hour, but an answer based on reality""To exist is to dare to throw oneself into the world""The most scandalous aspect of the scandal is that one gets used to it""I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me""In order to be an object of desire, it is necessary to get some distance from oneself""You are not born a woman, but become one""All men should have a drop of treason in their veins""There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless""I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity""One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar""Talent is formed in solitude, character in the stormy billows of the world""One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship and compassion""Self-consciousness isn't just a bunch of amino acids bumping into a membrane""The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another""In itself a wall on which an artist works so that it disappears is a marvelous creation""The day you stop wanting things is the day you stop living""The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women""I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom""To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job""Sex pleasure in woman, as I conceive it, is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon"