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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
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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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy

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