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

Simone de Beauvoir

There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman

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