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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

Simone de Beauvoir

Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man 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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

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