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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

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
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
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
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
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
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
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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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