It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous resp…

Simone de Beauvoir
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It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
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There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience. ✨ All Men are Mortal. Book by Simone de Beauvoir, p. 181, 1946.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1953). The second sex, Vintage
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 we have to find them for ourselves.
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

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