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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
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
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
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
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
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
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman

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