Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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