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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

There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong

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