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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

Simone de Beauvoir

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth

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