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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
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
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
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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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