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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion

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