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#1

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76500 likes

#2

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: change, life

20965 likes

#3

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

5332 likes

#4

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

2382 likes

#5

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

tags: books, culture, literature

747 likes

#6

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: feminism

678 likes

#7

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: beauty, body-image, diet-industry, eating-disorders, self-esteem, weight

474 likes

#8

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex

tags: feminism

522 likes

#9

“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

431 likes

#10

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

381 likes

#11

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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#12

“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

333 likes

#13

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: theoretical

381 likes

#14

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Book of Positive Quotations

tags: change, conduct-of-life, delay, life

253 likes

#15

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

235 likes

#16

“If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

294 likes

#17

“She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

187 likes

#18

“Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: feminism, wisdom, women

193 likes

#19

“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex

tags: courtship, entrapment, husbands, marriage, matrimony, wives

176 likes

#20

“Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

tags: inspirational

167 likes

#21

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: new-york-city

145 likes

#22

“I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

124 likes

#23

“Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

117 likes

#24

“To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Prime of Life

149 likes

#25

“Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

121 likes

#26

“‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: writing

86 likes

#27

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

4764 likes

#28

“He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: wallflower

4620 likes

#29

“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

3373 likes

#30

“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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