Long-conditioned marriage feels like self-poisoning one can no longer renounce.

Evidence

We discover that we are the victims of poisoning, but that we have grown used to it. How can we give it up without giving up ourselves? — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1350

Categorization

• APHORISMS: Captures how habituated structures become constitutive of identity, making liberation feel like self-destruction.
• XREF: connects to: Marriage as an institution, not the individuals in it, causes conjugal misery. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1368; Imposed marriage can be so traumatic a girl kills herself over it — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1130

Broader Connections

• Marriage as an institution, not the individuals in it, causes conjugal misery. #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1368