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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

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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

Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Oneself Woman

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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