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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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

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