Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWeakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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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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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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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Life 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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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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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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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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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