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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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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Easy People
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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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

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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