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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe 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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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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 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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