Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHistory took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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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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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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