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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Simone de Beauvoir

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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
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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
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
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
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 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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

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