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Living Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
- The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways;…
- Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own…
- Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
- It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
- Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
- And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to…
- A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
- But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had…
- I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
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