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 BEAUVOIRMystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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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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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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