She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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