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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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 catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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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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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