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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.

Simone de Beauvoir

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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

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