The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Freedom 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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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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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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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 could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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.
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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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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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