I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. — Emily Dickinson

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To sense the peace of extinguished passion happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge. ― Dejan Stojanovic

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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. - Simone de Beauvoir

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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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Buying is a profound pleasure. Simone de Beauvoir

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone de Beauvoir

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One is not born a woman, but becomes one. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. ― John Berger

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