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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare

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