But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife 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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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