That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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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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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Weakness’ 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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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