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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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 wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
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

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