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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Simone de Beauvoir

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

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