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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir

A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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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Body Philosophy World
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics

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