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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
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
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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

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