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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

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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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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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Father Invention
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
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

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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