But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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