Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRToday, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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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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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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