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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Simone de Beauvoir

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
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
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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