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All success cloaks a surrender.

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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
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
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

All success cloaks a surrender.

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