What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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