One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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