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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Simone de Beauvoir

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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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Existence Freedom Spring Value

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

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