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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Simone de Beauvoir

A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See

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