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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Oneself Value
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Generosity Myself True
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Future Justice Present
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Demand Sacrifice War
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Naked True Yourself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Empty People Thinking
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Philosophy World
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Discipline Man Woman
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Feeling Freedom
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Human Man Woman

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

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