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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

Simone de Beauvoir

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
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
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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

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