One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWeakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHer wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThat the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo 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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll success cloaks a surrender.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRToday, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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