Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Life

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  • 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.

  • 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 (1975). “The Coming of Age”
  • 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 (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.41, Open Road Media
  • It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

    'Le deuxiéme sexe' (1949) pt. 2, ch. 4
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