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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy

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