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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.

Simone de Beauvoir

Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Feeling Freedom
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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

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