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Love Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
- I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
- The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
- I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
- The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
- Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
- We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
- There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
- A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.
- Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched,…
- 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.
- Live with no time-out.
- Habit has a kind of poetry.
- To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
- Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
- There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There…
- Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
- Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've…
- She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
- She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
- A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
- Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
- Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
- On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but…
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