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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Simone de Beauvoir

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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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Easy People
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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
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
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

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