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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

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 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 the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young

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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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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