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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

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself

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.

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