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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man

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