If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRPeople seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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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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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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