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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

Simone de Beauvoir

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Man Philosophy
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Ability Inspirational Worth
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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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Man Truth View World

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