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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

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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
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
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World

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