When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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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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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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