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

Simone de Beauvoir

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love

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

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