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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
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Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
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Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.
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I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.
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That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
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