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

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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. - Simone de Beauvoir

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You cannot be responsible for some things that happen on earth. You may attempt to act, God alone will decide. Some things are mysteries! ― Israelmore Ayivor

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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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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. - 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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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein

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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. - Simone de Beauvoir

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