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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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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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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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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