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 BEAUVOIRRepresentation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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