Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."

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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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"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."

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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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"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth."

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