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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

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
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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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
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

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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