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All success cloaks a surrender.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline 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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman

All success cloaks a surrender.

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