If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne’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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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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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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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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