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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

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
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
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
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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

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