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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective

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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