One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRDeath itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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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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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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