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Existential Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
- The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can…
- The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever…
- Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
- The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
- Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
- Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours...
- There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him…
- Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
- A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others…
- The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and…
- As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as…
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- The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and… — Simone de Beauvoir
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- Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir