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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Simone de Beauvoir

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself

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