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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

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
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
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 abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World

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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