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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

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
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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Love Perspective Understand
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World

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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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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