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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.

Simone de Beauvoir

There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself

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