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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

Simone de Beauvoir

All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself

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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