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

Simone de Beauvoir

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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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Love Perspective Understand
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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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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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Creation Lost Love Youth
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings

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