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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

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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

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