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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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.
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Love Perspective Understand
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win

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