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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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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Creation Lost Love Youth
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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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
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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Human Man Woman

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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