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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner

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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