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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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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Death Life Live
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong

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