No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRRepresentation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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