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

Simone de Beauvoir

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
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 tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman

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