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

Simone de Beauvoir

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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

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