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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

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