One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere 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.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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