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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Simone de Beauvoir

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection

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