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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
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
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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

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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