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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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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Break Magic Sex Woman

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