There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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