Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRFreedom 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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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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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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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