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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 Beauvoir

Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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