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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

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
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
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History

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