Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRShe was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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 tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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