One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBe loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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