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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Greatness Himself 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
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy

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