Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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