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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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
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
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
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

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