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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

Simone de Beauvoir

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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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Death Life Live
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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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Beginning Himself Man Sex
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World

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