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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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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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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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