Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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