I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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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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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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