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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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 not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself

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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