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

Simone de Beauvoir

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
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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Father Invention
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex 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
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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Care Life Price Profit Young
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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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Existence Freedom Spring Value
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing

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