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

Simone de Beauvoir

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
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
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness

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